PMID- 23514518
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130904
LR  - 20130321
IS  - 1089-7690 (Electronic)
IS  - 0021-9606 (Linking)
VI  - 138
IP  - 10
DP  - 2013 Mar 14
TI  - Tricritical behavior of the nematic to smectic-A phase transition in the binary 
      mixture of liquid crystal.
PG  - 104906
LID - 10.1063/1.4794312 [doi]
AB  - We propose a phenomenological model to describe the tricritical behavior of the 
      nematic to smectic-A (N-SmA) phase transition in liquid crystal mixture. To 
      describe the mesophase transitions in binary mixture, nematic and smectic order 
      parameters have been coupled with the concentration. We show that a tricritical 
      point on the N-SmA phase transition line can be achieved under certain 
      conditions. The predictive capability of the present model for determining the 
      tricritical point of a binary mixture displaying the N-SmA transition has been 
      demonstrated by testing with reported phase diagrams sharing both phases.
FAU - Mukherjee, Prabir K
AU  - Mukherjee PK
AD  - Department of Physics, Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, 
      12 William Carey Road, Serampore, Hooghly-712201, India. pkmuk1966@gmail.com
FAU - Tamarit, Josep Ll
AU  - Tamarit JL
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Chem Phys
JT  - The Journal of chemical physics
JID - 0375360
EDAT- 2013/03/22 06:00
MHDA- 2013/03/22 06:01
CRDT- 2013/03/22 06:00
PHST- 2013/03/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/03/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/03/22 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1063/1.4794312 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Chem Phys. 2013 Mar 14;138(10):104906. doi: 10.1063/1.4794312.