Smectic phase in a system of hard ellipsoids with isotropic attractive interactions

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

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Del Río, Elvira Martín ^a   De Miguel, Enrique ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOIDS; MEAN-FIELD LEVEL; NONLOCAL WEIGHTED DENSITY APPROXIMATION; SMECTIC PHASE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FREE ENERGY; THERMOANALYSIS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 26944495631     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051710     Document Type: Article

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