Nematic-smectic A and nematic-solid transitions of parallel hard spherocylinders from density functional theory
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1992
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Abstract
A simple density functional theory for the various liquid-crystalline phases of parallel hard spherocylinders is formulated on the basis of Pynn's ansatz for the direct correlation function of the spherocylinders. Fair agreement with the computer simulations is found.
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phase equilibria, phase transitions, critical points, molecular theories, liquid crystals, statistical mechanical theories