Colloidal hard-rod fluids near geometrically structured substrates

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

Volumn 70, Issue 2 1, 2004, Pages

  Harnau, L ^a,b   Penna, F ^c   Dietrich, S ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

HARD-ROD FLUIDS; LOWER-DENSITY ISOTROPIC BULK FLUIDS; NEMATIC FILMS; ZWANZIG MODEL;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 42749106617     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.021505     Document Type: Article

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