{"title":"Binary Mixture Composed of Nematic Liquid Crystal and Carbon Nanotubes: A Theoretical Description","authors":"V. Popa-Nita, R. Repnik","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.81936","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Based on the phenomenological model first presented by van der Schoot et al., which predicts the alignment of carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions in thermotropic nematic liquid crystals, we present the extensive results concerning the phase diagram and the orientational properties of the mixture in this chapter.","PeriodicalId":231277,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals - Self-Organized Soft Functional Materials for Advanced Applications","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Liquid Crystals - Self-Organized Soft Functional Materials for Advanced Applications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.81936","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Based on the phenomenological model first presented by van der Schoot et al., which predicts the alignment of carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions in thermotropic nematic liquid crystals, we present the extensive results concerning the phase diagram and the orientational properties of the mixture in this chapter.