  The structure of a molecular liquid, in both the nematic liquid crystalline
and isotropic phases, around a cylindrical macroparticle, is studied using
density functional theory. In the nematic phase the structure of the fluid is
highly anisotropic with respect to the director, in agreement with results from
simulation and phenomenological theories. On going into the isotropic phase the
structure becomes rotationally invariant around the macroparticle with an
oriented layer at the surface.
