Isotropic-nematic transition of hard rods immersed in random sphere matrices

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 12067-12073

  Schmidt, Matthias ^a,b   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ANNEALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

HARD RODS; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC TRANSITION; PACKING FRACTION; RANDOM SPHERE MATRICES;

SPHERES;

EID: 11144225927     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1815294     Document Type: Article

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