Generalized Onsager theory of liquid crystals

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

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Xiao, Xiaobin ^a   Sheng, Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED THEORY; HEXAGONAL ORDER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SHORT RANGE ORDERING; SMALL ASPECT RATIO; STERIC REPULSIONS; TRANSITION DENSITY; VIRIAL COEFFICIENT;

ASPECT RATIO; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84890509285     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.062501     Document Type: Article

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