Monte Carlo simulations of liquid crystals near rough walls

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Cheung, David L ^a   Schmid, Friederike ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHORING COEFFICIENT; ELLIPSOIDAL MOLECULES; RANDOM POSITION; SPACE ORDERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 22944439056     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1844495     Document Type: Article

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