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LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 32, Issue 11-12, Pages 1525-1529Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678290500284454
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We use Monte Carlo simulations to investigate a simple lattice model for nematic liquid crystals containing nanospheres. The influence of particle size on the phase behaviour is studied using two different sized particles. The phase diagram is found to be topologically equivalent for both particle sizes, with a large biphasic region corresponding to coexistence between a rod-rich nematic and a rod-poor isotropic phase. For small spheres, the rod-rich nematic phase is stable for relatively large volume fractions of spheres (up to a maximum of about 16%). In contrast, the nematic phase for the system with larger spheres is constrained to a much narrower region of the phase diagram.
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