@article{Oukouiss_2010, title={Phase Transitions in Nematic Fluids}, volume={2}, url={https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/JSR/article/view/4438}, DOI={10.3329/jsr.v2i3.4438}, abstractNote={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 15.55pt 0pt 14.2pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We use a simple van der Waals theory, suitably extended to the solid phase and to anisotropic interactions, to study the phase behaviour of a system of particles with nematic interactions. Very rich phase behaviour is found which indicates, in particular, that the nematic liquid is stable only for large values of the strength of the nematic interactions. The isotropic liquid-nematic liquid and the isotropic solid-nematic solid transitions are always first-order. Additionally, we have found that the nematic liquid is thermodynamically stable only in a small domain of the temperature-density plane contained between two triple lines.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 15.55pt 0pt 14.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 6pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 15.55pt 0pt 14.2pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-GB">Keywords</span></em><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-GB">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Phase diagrams; Nematic interactions; Free energy; Transitions.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 14.2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-SG; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 14.2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-SG; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">© 2010 JSR Publications. ISSN: 2070-0237 (Print); 2070-0245 (Online). All rights reserved.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt 6.0cm 177.2pt 184.3pt;"><span style="font-size: 2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-SG; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt 6.0cm 177.2pt 184.3pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-SG; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;">DOI: 10.3329/jsr.v2i3.4438<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">                 </span></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;" lang="FR">J. Sci. Res. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2</strong> (3), 419-432 (2010)</span></span></p><p> </p>}, number={3}, journal={Journal of Scientific Research}, author={Oukouiss, A.}, year={2010}, month={Aug.}, pages={419} }