Energy landscape view of phase transitions and slow dynamics in thermotropic liquid crystals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 7217-7221

  Chakrabaiti, Dwaipayan ^a   Bagchi, Biman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Inherent structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 33646714826     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0508355103     Document Type: Article

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