Role of molecular rigidity on phase organization of a smectic liquid crystal - A theoretical model

Materials Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 248-252

  Praveen, P Lakshmi ^a   Ojha, D P ^a  

^a ANDHRA LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Computational technique; Liquid crystal; Molecular rigidity; Phase equilibria

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CHARGE; ATOMIC DIPOLE; BOLTZMANN; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; DIFFERENT MODES; GEOMETRICAL ARRANGEMENTS; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTION ENERGIES; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; ISOTROPIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; MODIFIED RAYLEIGH; MOLECULAR ARRANGEMENTS; MOLECULAR PAIRS; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR RIGIDITY; MULTIPOLE EXPANSION METHODS; ORIENTATIONAL MOTION; PERTURBATION THEORY; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; RELATIVE ORDER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHORT RANGE INTERACTIONS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TOTAL INTERACTION ENERGY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION;

ATOMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RIGIDITY; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TEMPERATURE;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 78751605393     PISSN: 02540584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2010.11.031     Document Type: Article

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