Phase behaviour of a symmetric binary mixture of hard rods

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 7727-7734

  Sear, Richard P ^a   Mulder, Bela M ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

GAUSSIAN TRIAL FUNCTION; HARD RODS; NEMATIC PHASE; PHASE BEHAVIOR;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 0030286754     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.473001     Document Type: Article

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