Finite-size thermomechanical effects in smectic liquid crystals: The vapor pressure paradox as an anharmonic phenomenon

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

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 419071-4190726

  Gao, Lianghui ^a   Golubović, Leonardo ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAMILTONIANS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHONONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SURFACE TENSION; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; VAPOR PRESSURE;

MULTILAMELLAR MEMBRANES; VAPOR-LIQUID INTERFACES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; MACROMOLECULE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; MACROMOLECULE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; PERIODICITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION;

CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PERIODICITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; SOLUTIONS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84988745177     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.041907     Document Type: Article

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