Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Physics and its Applications

The Effect of Magnetcic Field on the Phase Transition of Swollen Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Authors
Warsono Warsono, Pekik Nurwantoro, Kamsul Abraha
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Warsono Warsono
Available Online September 2014.
DOI
10.2991/icopia-14.2015.37How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Magnetic field, swollen liquid crystal elastomers, Flory-Huggins and Maier-Saupe models, free energy, order parameter, numerical integration
Abstract

The effect of magnetic fields on the swelling of liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) dissolved in liquid crystal (LC) solvent have been studied. The Flory-Huggins model used to calculate the free energy of an isotropic mixing and the Maier-Saupe model used to calculate the free energy of a nematic mixing. Numerical integration method used to calculate the order parameter and the total free energy of system (consists of : nematic free energy, elastic free energy, isotropic mixing free energy and magnetic free energy) and the calculation results graphed as a function of temperatures for various magnetic fields and as function of magnetic fields for various of temperatures. We find that the magnetic field shifts the transition points towards higher temperatures, increases the energy transition, and induces an isotropic phase to paranematic phase.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Physics and its Applications
Series
Advances in Physics Research
Publication Date
September 2014
ISBN
978-94-62520-51-6
ISSN
2352-541X
DOI
10.2991/icopia-14.2015.37How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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