Computer simulation study of tilted smectic mesophases

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 5078-5090

  Withers, Ian M ^a,b   Care, Christopher M ^b   Cleaver, Douglas J ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PHASE COMPOSITION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

INTERNALLY ROTATED GAY-BERNE POTENTIAL; ROTATION ANGLE; SINGLE SITE APPROXIMATION; SMECTIC MESOPHASES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034273685     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1289240     Document Type: Article

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