Liquid-crystalline ordering in rod-coil diblock copolymers studied by mesoscale simulations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1821, 2004, Pages 1773-1781

  AlSunaidi, A ^a   Den Otter, W K ^b   Clarke, J H R ^c  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissipative particle dynamics; Liquid crystal; Mesoscale simulation; Rod coil copolymer

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843072956     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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