Phase transitions of semiflexible hard-sphere chain liquids

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

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Movahed, Hanif Bayat ^a,b   Hidalgo, Raul Cruz ^a,c   Sullivan, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITION; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASE TRANSITIONS; ONSAGER SECOND-VIRIAL APPROXIMATION; SEMIFLEXIBLE HARD-SPHERE CHAIN MOLECULES;

FOURIER OPTICS; FREE ENERGY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 33645135395     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.032701     Document Type: Article

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