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Structural transitions in thermotropic ferronematics
271-275The structural
instabilities in ferronematics based on different types of liquid crystals,
exposed to electric or magnetic fields oriented perpendicular (Fredericksz
transition) and parallel to the initial director, were studied within the
Burylov and Raikher’s theory. Using the capacitance measurements the critical
electric (magnetic) fields EFN
(BFN), corresponding to
the Fredericksz transition, and fields Emax,
(Bmax,), at which the
initial perpendicularity between director n→ and magnetic
moment m→  breaks-down in field
parallel to the initial director, were found. These values were then used for
the estimation of the surface density of the anchoring energy W of liquid crystal molecules on the
magnetic particle surface