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  • Title: Nematic order of model goethite nanorods in a magnetic field.
    Author: Wensink HH, Vroege GJ.
    Journal: Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys; 2005 Sep; 72(3 Pt 1):031708. PubMed ID: 16241461.
    Abstract:
    We explore the nematic order of model goethite nanorods in an external magnetic field within Onsager-Parsons density functional theory. The goethite rods are represented by monodisperse, charged spherocylinders with a permanent magnetic moment along the rod main axis, forcing the particles to align parallel to the magnetic field at low field strength. The intrinsic diamagnetic susceptibility anisometry of the rods is negative, which leads to a preferred perpendicular orientation at higher field strength. It is shown that these competing effects may give rise to intricate phase behavior, including a pronounced stability of biaxial nematic order and the presence of reentrant phase transitions and demixing phenomena.
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