Potential of mean force between a spherical particle suspended in a nematic liquid crystal and a substrate: Sphere size effects

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

Volumn 69, Issue 6 1, 2004, Pages

  Kim, Evelina B ^a   De Pablo, Juan J ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOLAYERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SEPARATION; SUBSTRATES; TOPOLOGY;

ANISOTROPIC INTERACTIONS; GLOBAL REPULSION; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE (PMF); TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 42749103555     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.061703     Document Type: Article

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