Phenomenological theory of the nematic to lamellar phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals

Prabir K. Mukherjee; Joydeep Bhattacharya

doi:10.1063/1.2426343

Phenomenological theory of the nematic to lamellar phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals

Prabir K. Mukherjee^*
, Joydeep Bhattacharya

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A phenomenological theory is presented to describe the nematic to lamellar phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals. The problem of the first or second order transition is explored by means of the variation of the surfactant concentration. The possibility of the tricritical point at the nematic to lamellar phase transition is discussed in a phenomenological way. The influence of the electrolyte on this transition is also discussed by varying the coupling between the electrolyte concentration variables and the order parameters. The theoretical prediction is found to be in good qualitative agreement with experimental results.

Original language	English
Article number	024901
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	126
Issue number	2
Early online date	9 Jan 2007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2426343
Publication status	Published - 14 Jan 2007

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