3B01 液晶の分子機械モデル (I) : 分子を機械と見做すと何が見えてくるか

抄録

In a machinery model for liquid crystal system, molecules existing in neighboring layers are working harmonically as rotor-bearing system. Molecules may be rigid or clastic depending on its stiffness. Their librational motion induces catastrophic molecular reorientation at the critical speed, i.e. the phase change. This critical speed is sensitive to the molecular conformation and configuration. Influences of the rotational moment of the molecules, weight balance and the position of the weight center to the phase behavior are discussed in this paper.