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Phenomenological theory of phase transition from isotropic to uniaxial, biaxial, and reentrant nematic phases in achiral liquid crystals

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The topological properties of phase diagrams of liquid crystals with achiral molecules (mesogens) were studied for transitions from the isotropic to uniaxial and biaxial phases by using the phenomenological Landau-de Gennes theory. An isostructural phase transition between two uniaxial nematic phases was investigated.

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  1. Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    A. E. Prostakov

  2. Research Institute of Physics, Rostov State University, pr. Stachki 194, Rostov-on-Don, 344104, Russia

    E. S. Larin

  3. College of Communications, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    M. B. Stryukov

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Translated from Kristallografiya, Vol. 47, No. 6, 2002, pp. 1110–1118.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Prostakov, Larin, Stryukov.

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Prostakov, A.E., Larin, E.S. & Stryukov, M.B. Phenomenological theory of phase transition from isotropic to uniaxial, biaxial, and reentrant nematic phases in achiral liquid crystals. Crystallogr. Rep. 47, 1041–1048 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1523524

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