Orientational ordering and chiral symmetry breaking in organic monolayers composed of disklike mesogenic molecules: Molecular theory and computer simulations

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

Volumn 67, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages

  Osipov, Mikhail A ^a   Stelzer, Joachim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Schwetzinger Strasse ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOLAYERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHASE COMPOSITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CHIRAL SYMMETRY BREAKING; DISCOTIC MESOGENIC MOLECULES; ORIENTATIONAL DISORDERING; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749104601     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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