What is it about?
Anisotropic polarizabilities of liquid crystals are important parameters for their implications in optical properties of these substances. We have validated a new method to calculate the anisotropic polarizabilities of liquid crystals. The advantage of this new method is that it allows the calculation of the elusive anisotropy of thermal expansion of nematic liquid crystals. In this article, the anisotropy of thermal expansion of nematic liquid crystals is reported for first time.
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Why is it important?
First report of the anisotropy of thermal expansion of nematic liquid crystals.
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This page is a summary of: New method to calculate the anisotropies of polarizability and thermal expansion of uniaxial liquid crystals, The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2021, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0049539.
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