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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 50: Poster Session III
CPP 50.6: Poster
Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 14:00–16:00, P1C
Molecular theory of a ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystal — •Immanuel Sebastian Geier1, Stefanie Wandrei1, Robert Arnold Skutnik1, and Martin Schoen1,2 — 1Stranski-Laboratorium für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Fakultät für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 115, 10623 Berlin, Germany — 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
We employ a version of classical density functional theory to study the phase behavior of a simple model liquid crystal in an external field. The uniaxially symmetric molecules have a spherically symmetric core with superimposed orientation-dependent attractions. The interaction between the cores consist of a hard-sphere repulsion plus an isotropic square-well attraction. The anisotropic part of the interaction potential allows for the formation of a uniaxially symmetric nematic phase. The orientation of the molecules couples to an external polar field. The external field is capable of rotating the nematic director in the x-z plane. The field is also capable of changing the topology of the phase diagram in that it suppresses the phase coexistence between an isotropic liquid and a nematic phase observed in the absence of the field. We study the transition from an unpolar to a polar nematic phase in terms of the orientation-distribution function (odf), nematic and polar order parameters, and components of the nematic director.