Fractionation in Gay-Berne liquid crystal mixtures

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

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Moreno Razo, J Antonio ^a   Díaz Herrera, Enrique ^a   Klapp, Sabine H L ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FRACTIONATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE BEHAVIOR;

DEMIXING TRANSITIONS; DENSE LIQUID STATE CONDITIONS; FLUID-FLUID PHASE BEHAVIOR; GAY BERNE LIQUID CRYSTAL MIXTURES; NEMATIC STRUCTURES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 35248839316     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041703     Document Type: Article

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