Statistical mechanics of bend flexoelectricity and the twist-bend phase in bent-core liquid crystals

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Shamid, Shaikh M ^a   Dhakal, Subas ^a   Selinger, Jonathan V ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS; BENT-CORE MOLECULES; FLEXOELECTRIC COEFFICIENTS; FLEXOELECTRICITY; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; SECOND ORDER TRANSITION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TORQUE; YOUNG MODULUS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; TORQUE;

EID: 84878522559     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.052503     Document Type: Article

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