Espectroscopia de lente termica : propriedades termicas de cristais liquidos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1997

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Liquid Crystals are fluids that present intermediate properties between solid and liquid, and consist of a molecular arrange with structural order. These systems are classified as Thermotropic Liquid Cristals, Lyotropie Liquid Crystals and Plastic Crystals. Since their discovery, these systems have shown to be an important area of condensed matter research. As a result, a technological revolution took place in the electronics industry, with the production of liquid crystal displays, achieving the large scale production of portable computer and television displays through the replacement of the catodic ray tubes. In this work we used the thermal lens spectroscopy in the mismatched mode to determine the thermal diffusivity of Lyotropic Liquid Crystal samples in their nematic calamitic phase. The thermal lens spectroscopy is a transient technique suitable to characterize both optical and thermal properties of very low optical absorption samples. The samples studied were:1) potassium laurate (29.4 wt%), decanol (6.6 wt%), water (64 wt%); 2) potassium laurate (34.5 wt%), potassium chloride (3.0 wt%), water (62.5 wt%); 3) and 4)sample 1 doped with ferrofluid (two concentrations). The samples were aligned in a magnetic field with the director of the phase both parallel and perpendicular to the cell walls, and the textures of the aligned phases were observed with an optical microscope through crossed polarizers. Ferrofluid doping in these systems is used to make alignment in the magnetic field easier. The thermal diffusivity (parallel and perpendicular to the director of the phase) was determined from the thermal lens measurements performed on the aligned samples. The results obtained for samples 1 and 2 indicate that thermal anisotropy in this system is lower than for thermotropic liquid crystals in their nematic calamitic phase. A thermal resistance model is presented, relating the thermal anisotropy to the micelle shape. This model fits quite well the experimental results, both in the case of lyotropic mixtures here investigated and in the case of thermotropic liquid crystals found in the literature. The results obtained for samples 3 and 4 show that the thermal anisotropy is reduced when ferrofluld is added. Furthermore, the thermal diffusivity itself is also reduced with doping, indicating that ferrofluid particles play a significant role in the heat propagation in the sample

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difusividade termica cristais liquidos materiais compostos - propriedades termicas

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