Nematic and smectic ordering in a system of two-dimensional hard zigzag particles

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 131, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Varga, Szabolcs ^a   Gurin, Ṕter ^a   Armas Ṕrez, Julio C ^b   Quintana H, Jacqueline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b Instituto de Quimica de la UNAM   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AREA COST; BENT ANGLE; CENTRAL CORE; HIGH COSTS; IDEAL GAS; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; LAYERED STRUCTURES; MC SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SHAPES; NEMATIC AND SMECTIC ORDERING; NEMATIC PHASE; ONSAGER THEORY; SMECTIC PHASE; SMECTIC PHASIS; TAIL LENGTH; TRANSITION DENSITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS;

SYSTEM STABILITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 72949097398     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3258858     Document Type: Article

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