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  • Title: Mechanisms of solute orientational order in nematic liquid crystals.
    Author: Elliott Burnell E, Ter Beek LC, Sun Z.
    Journal: J Chem Phys; 2008 Apr 28; 128(16):164901. PubMed ID: 18447494.
    Abstract:
    The order parameters of a number of different solutes dissolved in a number of different nematic liquid-crystal solvents are measured and compared. It is shown that the order parameters can all be rationalized with the ansatz that there exist two independent ordering mechanisms operating in the liquid crystals employed. With this ansatz it is possible to fit the experimental order parameters to better than 5%. This opens the possibility of the accurate prediction of order parameters in ordered liquids.
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