Phase Behaviour of Parallel Hard Rods in Confinement: an Onsager Theory Study
Result description
It is shown that the presence of hard walls inhibits the second order nematic-smectic A phase transition irrespective of the value of the wall-to-wall separation. Instead, due to accommodation problems of the cylinders into the pore, an infinite number of first order layering phase transitions appears. Coexisting curves, corresponding to the equilibrium between two phases having n and n + 1 smectic-like periods, are bounded with lower critical points. The gap between the average densities of the coexisting phases shrinks with increasing pore width, while the properties of the critical points monotonically move towards those of the nematic-smectic A phase transition of the bulk system. The effect of only one hard wall is related to the bulk nematic-smectic A phase transition since a critical wetting transition of the wall induced layering takes place.
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Phase Behaviour of Parallel Hard Rods in Confinement: an Onsager Theory Study
Original language description
It is shown that the presence of hard walls inhibits the second order nematic-smectic A phase transition irrespective of the value of the wall-to-wall separation. Instead, due to accommodation problems of the cylinders into the pore, an infinite number of first order layering phase transitions appears. Coexisting curves, corresponding to the equilibrium between two phases having n and n + 1 smectic-like periods, are bounded with lower critical points. The gap between the average densities of the coexisting phases shrinks with increasing pore width, while the properties of the critical points monotonically move towards those of the nematic-smectic A phase transition of the bulk system. The effect of only one hard wall is related to the bulk nematic-smectic A phase transition since a critical wetting transition of the wall induced layering takes place.
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Jx - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
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CF - Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry
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Publication year
2010
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Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter
ISSN
0953-8984
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
17
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
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UT code for WoS article
000276547300003
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Result type
Jx - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP
CF - Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry
Year of implementation
2010