Isotropic-nematic interfacial tension of hard and soft rods: Application of advanced grand canonical biased-sampling techniques

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Vink, R L C ^a   Wolfsheimer, S ^a   Schilling, T ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE TENSION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

BOLTZMANN CONSTANT; CANONICAL BIASING; NEMATIC ORDER PARAMETER; RODS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547236780     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2000237     Document Type: Article

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