The lyotropic liquid crystalline quaternary mixture made of potassium laurate (KL),
potassium sulphate, 1-undecanol and water was investigated by experimental optical …

We introduce shape variations in a liquid-crystalline system by considering an elementary
Maier-Saupe lattice model for a mixture of uniaxial and biaxial molecules. Shape variables …

Liquid crystals consisting of biaxial particles can exhibit a much richer phase behavior than
their uniaxial counterparts. Usually, one has to rely on simulation results to understand the …

We use a lattice gas model to describe the phase transitions in nematic liquid crystals. The
phase diagram displays, in addition to the isotropic phase, the two uniaxial nematics, the rod …

We analyze a mean-field model for mixtures involving biaxial nematogens and dipolar
nanoparticles, taking into account not only orientational and isotropic pair interactions …

Recent work by Cerasoli et al (2018 Phys. Rev. E 98 042149) on a two-dimensional model
of biased Brownian gyrators driven in part by temperature differences along distinct …

The system sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS)/decanol (DeOH)/water presents, with
temperature increase, an unusual phase transition between a stable biaxial phase and a …

We employ a lattice-gas extension of the Maier-Saupe model with discrete orientation states
to study the phase behavior of a statistical model for biaxial nematogenic units in mean-field …

We investigate the connections between some simple Maier-Saupe lattice models, with a
discrete choice of orientations of the microscopic directors, and a recent proposal of a two …

Molecular dynamics computer simulations have been employed to demonstrate that the
addition of a suitable uniaxial discotic nematic to a biaxial nematic (Nb) of elongated …