作者: A. Wulf
DOI: 10.1063/1.435059
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摘要: Experiment and theory have shown that the orientational free energy of nematic liquid crystals contains both a translational entropy term an term, which are same order magnitude. It has been proposed recently is due to total attractive interaction energy, modulated by order‐dependent radial correlations between rodlike molecular cores. In this paper we confirm proposal calculation pair in fluid short rods. turns out only point some difficulty explain relatively small ’’experimental’’ value −W2 η2/2, where η=orientational parameter, for length (l) diameter (d) ratios common crystal molecules (l/d≳3). Our results indicate get reasonable values W2/W0 (−W0/2=internal η=0), l/d≳3/2, it important take account short‐range order. Also, there suggestion dispersion energ...