Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5490354 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2017 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

•We propose a simple statistical model of ferronematic liquid crystals.•We use spherical approximation to derive equations of state.•We study magnetic field induced order-disorder transitions.

On the base of molecular-statistical approach we study the phase transition between the ordered (ferromagnetic) and disordered (paramagnetic) phases in liquid-crystalline suspensions of magnetic nanoparticles in an external magnetic field. The free energy and equations of magnetic and orientational equilibrium are obtained in the framework of spherical approximation.

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