A deformable Gay-Berne model for the simulation of liquid crystals and soft materials

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 423, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 1-6

  Muccioli, Luca ^a   Zannoni, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FORMABILITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

DYNAMIC FLUCTUATIONS; ELLIPSOIDAL PARTICLES; GAY BERNE MODEL; SOFT MATERIALS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33646201674     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2006.03.022     Document Type: Article

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