Nematic-isotropic phase transition in diblock fused-sphere chain fluids

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

Volumn 69, Issue 6 1, 2004, Pages

  Diplock, R ^a   Sullivan, D E ^a   Jaffer, K M ^b   Opps, S B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FREE ENERGY; MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DENSITY FUNCTION THEORY; INTERMOLECULAR; MESOGENIC MOLECULES; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 37649029931     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.062701     Document Type: Article

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