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The rheological behaviors of 5CB liquid crystal under the coupling effect of shear and electric field are investigated by theoretical and experimental study. Establish calculating equation of the system Gibbs free energy by adopting the continuum theory of liquid crystals which contains anchoring energy, elastic free energy, dielectric free energy and flow energy. Then the molecular orientation angle distribution and apparent viscosity of liquid crystal under the coupling effect are obtained by minimizing the Gibbs free energy, revealing the microscopic mechanism of rheological behaviors and influence rules of coupling effect from the molecular model. Meanwhile the calculated results are verified by rheological test. Comparative Analysis of the errors and reasons of theoretical and experimental results, which demonstrates that anchoring effect plays an important role in the molecular orientation and viscosity of liquid crystal. Both the theoretical and experimental results indicate that liquid crystals have electroviscous effect and behavior like non-Newtonian liquids under electric field. The viscosities of liquid crystals are determined by the coupling and competition action of shear and electric field, which can reach 4 times of its original value under electric field. This property of controllable viscosity is important in tribology, which can self-adaptively satisfy the requirement of viscosities for different working conditions as a "smart lubrication" under certain condition.
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Keywords:
- liquid crystals /
- rheological behavior /
- electric-viscous effect /
- coupling field
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[1] Iglesias P, Bermudez M D, Carrion F J, Martinez-Nicolas G 2004 Wear 256 386
[2] Zhang C L, Zhang S M, Yu L G, Zhang P Y, Zhang Z J, Wu Z S 2012 Tribology Letters 1 49
[3] Ge L L, Chen L P, Guo R 2007 Tribology Letters 2 123
[4] Morishita S, Matsumura Y, Shiraishi T 2002 Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists 11 846
[5] Shen M W, Luo J B, Wen S Z, Yao J B 2001 Chinese Science Bulletin 7 603 (in Chinese) [沈明武, 雒建斌, 温诗铸, 姚俊斌 2001 科学通报 7 603]
[6] Yao J B, Wen S Z, Wang Q L, Chen S Q, Xu M 2000 Lubrication Engineering 3 24 (in Chinese) [姚俊兵, 温诗铸, 王清亮, 陈声强, 徐敏 2000 润滑与密封 3 24]
[7] Zhang X J, Zhang X H, Xiong Y, Tian Y, Wen S Z 2012 Rheologica Acta 3 267
[8] Amann T, Dold C, Kailer A 2012 Soft Matter 38 9840
[9] Nakano K 2004 Journal of Japanese Society of Society of Tribologists 1 36
[10] Shen M W, Luo J B, Wen S Z, Yao J B 2002 Lubrication Engineering 3 18
[11] de Gennes P G, Prost J 1993 The Physics of Liquid Crystals (New York: Oxford University Press)
[12] Xie Y Z 1988 Physics of Liquid Crystal (Beijing: Science Press)(in Chinese) [谢毓章 1988 液晶物理学 (北京: 科学出版社) ]
[13] Pasechnik S V, Chigrinov V G, Shmeliova D V 2009 Liquid Crystals: Viscous and Elastic properties (Weinheim: Wiley-VCH)
[14] Wen S Z, Huang P 2008 Principles of Tribology (3rd Ed) (Beijing: Tsinghua University Press) (in Chinese) [温诗铸, 黄平 2008 摩擦学原理 (北京: 清华大学出版社)]
[15] Medina J C, Mendoza C I 2008 Europhysics Letters 84 160021
[16] Negita K 1996 Journal of Chemical Physics 17 7837
[17] Reyes J A, Corella M A, Mendoza C I 2008 Journal of Chemical Physics 129 0847108
[18] Reyes J A, Manero O, Rodriguez R F 2001 Rheologica Acta 5 426
[19] Guillen A D, Mendoza C I 2007 Journal of Chemical Physics 126 204905
[20] He S L, Wang Q 2001Acta Phys. Sin. 50 926 (in Chinese) [何赛灵, 王谦 2001 50 926]
[21] Matthias H, Roder T, Wehrspohn R B, Kitzerow H S, Matthias S, Picken S J 2005 Appl. Phys. Lett. 87 24110524
[22] Miesowicz M 1946 Nature 158 27
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