Abstract

A novel biaxial nematic phase is theoretically predicted in mixtures of a low-molecular-weight liquid crystalline molecule and a rigid rod-like polymer, such as carbon nanotubes and liquid crystalline polymers, where the two components favour a mutually perpendicular orientation. We demonstrate that rods dispersed in nematic liquid crystals induce the second orientational ordering and yield a biaxial nematic phase on the temperature–concentration plane, depending on an anisotropic interaction between a rod and a liquid crystal.

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