TY - JOUR AU - Lev, B. I. PY - 2018/12/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Aggregation of Nanoparticles in a Nematic Liquid Crystal JF - Ukrainian Journal of Physics JA - Ukr. J. Phys. VL - 62 IS - 7 SE - Soft matter DO - 10.15407/ujpe62.07.0599 UR - https://ujp.bitp.kiev.ua/index.php/ujp/article/view/2018657 SP - 599 AB - <p>We present a short review of our general result in [1], which concerns the behavior of a collection of nanoparticles in a nematic liquid crystal. Such liquid crystal colloids are studied for a long time, have highly peculiar characteristics, and have attracted a lot of the interest in different practical applications. A simple model of the aggregation of nanoparticles in a liquid crystal is proposed. With regard for the collective effect of the interaction between the small particles through a change in the scalar order parameter in a nematic liquid crystal, the inhomogeneous distribution of particles is predicted as distinct from possible structures in the system of macroscopic particles in a liquid crystal. The inhomogeneity length and the size of a cluster of nanoparticles are determined, and the possible peculiarities in the behavior of liquid crystals with introduced nanoparticles are described.</p> ER -