Communication: From rods to helices: Evidence of a screw-like nematic phase

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Kolli, Hima Bindu ^a   Frezza, Elisa ^b   Cinacchi, Giorgio ^c   Ferrarini, Alberta ^b   Giacometti, Achille ^a   Hudson, Toby S ^d  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

CHIRAL NEMATIC PHASE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; NEMATIC DIRECTOR; ORDER PARAMETER; PARTICLE SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; ROTATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; TRANSLATIONAL ENTROPIES;

SCREWS;

DNA; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

COLLOIDS; DNA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMERS;

EID: 84896758745     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4866808     Document Type: Article

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