Ta. Mirnaya et Sv. Volkov, ELECTROSTATIC STABILIZATION OF LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE ORDERING IN BINARY MELTS OF SODIUM AND POTASSIUM ALKANOATES, Liquid crystals, 16(4), 1994, pp. 687-692
The mesophase electrostatic stabilization energy (E) has been examined
by using the ionic continuous solid solution model for binary systems
of sodium and potassium alkanoates with a common anion. It is found t
hat E increases with a decrease in chain length of the alkanoate anion
and that there is an inverse proportionality between E and the square
of the mesophase bilayer spacing. The electrostatic stabilization fac
tor is shown to be responsible for the formation of an ionic mesophase
in binary acetate and propionate systems derived from two non-mesomor
phic components.