The phase behavior of a binary mixture of rodlike and disclike mesogens: Monte Carlo simulation, theory, and experiment

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5216-5225

  Galindo, A ^a   Haslam, A J ^a   Varga, S ^a,b   Jackson, G ^a   Vanakaras, A G ^c   Photinos, D J ^c   Dunmur, D A ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TEMPERATURE;

EQUILIBRIUM ORIENTATION; GIBBS ENSEMBLE MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; NEMATIC ORDERING; NEMATIC-COLUMNAR DEMIXING; ONSAGER THEORY; PARSONS-LEE SCALING;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 0141651719     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1598432     Document Type: Article

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