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Splay-bend curvature and temperature-induced surface transitions in nematic liquid crystals

Physical Review E, ISSN: 1063-651X, Vol: 48, Issue: 3, Page: 1942-1947
1993
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We present an elastic model to explain the temperature-induced surface transitions observed on the spontaneous orientation of nematic liquid crystals on solid surfaces. The destabilizing effect is due to the mixed splay-bend curvature elasticity K13. The transition is temperature driven by the change in the nematic-liquid-crystal order parameter S. The transition is continuous. A large angular variation localized close to the boundary is predicted. Analyzing experimental data, we estimate aK13a-a10-7 cgs units. © 1993 The American Physical Society.

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