The director and molecular dynamics of the field-induced alignment of a Gay-Berne nematic phase: An isothermal-isobaric nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation study

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Luckhurst, Geoffrey R ^a   Satoh, Katsuhiko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DIFFUSION CONSTANT; DIRECTOR RELAXATION; ERICKSEN-LESLIE THEORY; FIELD STRENGTHS; FIELD-INDUCED ALIGNMENT; GAY-BERNE; HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; LONG-RANGE STRUCTURES; MESOGENES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR ROTATIONS; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATICS; NONEQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ORIENTATIONAL CORRELATIONS; ROTATIONAL CORRELATION TIME; ROTATIONAL DIFFUSION; ROTATIONAL MOTION; ROTATIONAL VISCOSITY COEFFICIENT; SIMULATED BEHAVIORS; SIMULATION RESULT; TIME AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS;

ALIGNMENT; AUTOCORRELATION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; DYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STEREOCHEMISTRY; VISCOSITY;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 77952680855     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3374692     Document Type: Article

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