Rotational viscosity of a liquid crystal mixture: A fully atomistic molecular dynamics study

Chinese Physics B

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4380-4385

  Zhang, Ran ^a,b   Peng, Zeng Hui ^a   Liu, Yong Gang ^a   Zheng, Zhi Gang ^a   Xuan, Li ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Mixture; Molecular dynamic simulation; Nematic liquid crystal; Rotational viscosity

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; LIQUID CRYSTAL MIXTURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATION; ORDER PARAMETER; ROTATIONAL VISCOSITY; ROTATIONAL VISCOSITY COEFFICIENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME CORRELATION FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; VISCOSITY;

MIXTURES;

EID: 70350453737     PISSN: 16741056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/10/047     Document Type: Article

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