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A molecular-statistical theory of phase transitions in lyotropic liquid crystals, which describes the phase transitions between the isotropic (micellar), nematic and lamellar phases was developed. The equations describing the dependence of parameters of orientation and translational long-range order on the concentration were obtained. It was shown that depending on the values of the model microscopic constants, the nematic phase–lamellar phase transition can be both of the first and the second order. The influence of intensive and low intense γ-radiation on the phase transitions mentioned herein was considered. It was shown that the irradiation changes the model constants responsible for the phase transitions. On this basis, it can be assumed that the γ-radiation influences the course of the dependence of the long-range order parameters on concentration as well as it changes the values of the critical concentrations of the phase transitions and even the phase transition order.
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Original Russian Text © D.A. Badalyan, M.A. Stepanyan, H.G. Badalyan, 2016, published in Izvestiya Natsional’noi Akademii Nauk Armenii, Fizika, 2016, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 497–507.
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Badalyan, D.H., Stepanyan, M.A. & Badalyan, H.G. Transitions in lyotropic liquid crystals caused by concentration change and γ-radiation. J. Contemp. Phys. 51, 371–379 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068337216040095
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