Biaxial nematic and smectic phases of parallel particles with different cross sections

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

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Martínez Ratón, Yuri ^a   Varga, Szabolcs ^b   Velasco, Enrique ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FREE ENERGY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASE; CROSS-SECTION GEOMETRY; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; FREE ENERGY DENSITY; FUNDAMENTAL MEASURE THEORIES; ONE-COMPONENT FLUIDS; PARTICLE GEOMETRIES; RELATIVE STABILITIES;

METASTABLE PHASES;

EID: 51849108947     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.031705     Document Type: Article

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