Orientational correlations in two-dimensional liquid crystals studied by molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Go ^a   Saito, Jun Ichi ^a   Kato, Nobuyuki ^a   Tabe, Yuka ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D SYSTEMS; BULK SYSTEM; CONTINUOUS SYMMETRY; LANGMUIR MONOLAYERS; LENGTH SCALE; MOLECULAR DENSITY; MOLECULAR DIPOLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR EXCHANGE ENERGY; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; ORIENTATIONAL CORRELATIONS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; POWER LAW; POWER LAW DECAY; SMECTIC C; SMECTIC C LIQUID CRYSTALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL LIQUID CRYSTALS; VISIBLE LIGHT; WATER MOLECULE;

ACTIVE NETWORKS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 79951537829     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3536519     Document Type: Article

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