Interfaces of semi-infinite smectic liquid crystals and equations of state of infinite smectic stacks of semiflexible manifolds

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages 217081-2170813

  Gao, Lianghui ^a   Golubović, Leonardo ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF STATE; FREE ENERGY; HAMILTONIANS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

SEMIFLEXIBLE MANIFOLDS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037718613     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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