[PDF] Top 20 Computer simulations of liquid crystals

... The earliest simulations of this kind, for hard-particle models, used rather small system sizes [147, 148] of a few hundred molecules. Subsequent studies [80] of the Gay-Berne model employed systems of size 1024 – ... See full document

... perform computer simulations of LCs? LCs are fascinating systems to study because, like much of soft-condensed matter, their behaviour is characterised by the interplay of several very different effects ... See full document

... nematic liquid crystals with their local liquid structure, ...from simulations without any approximations, taking into account the dependence of pair correlations on the orientation of the ... See full document

... particles, computer simulations were used long ago to relate Frank elastic constants to molecular shape [Allen and Frenkel, 1988, 1990; Tjipto- Margo et ...puter simulations and ... See full document

... A number of possible avenues for future work are pos- sible. Calculation of the anchoring coefficient via alternative methods 16,28 would be useful. As the formation of a highly ordered layer at the surface is commonly ... See full document

... A Liquid-Crystal Display (LCD) is a flat panel display, electronic visual display, or video display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid ...crystals. Liquid crystals do ... See full document

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... BPII has been simulated with both homeotropic and pla- nar degenerate anchoring conditions and at different an- choring strengths in a parameter region where it is ther- modynamically stable in bulk. Following the perme- ... See full document

... via computer simulations which reveal that (i) ice nucleation occurs in low-mobility regions of the liquid, (ii) there is a dynamical incubation period in which the mobility of the molecules drops ... See full document

... for liquid crystal displays (LCD), liquid crystal thermometers and optical Imaging ...(LMM) liquid crystals are used for erasable optical disks, full color-electronic slides for ... See full document

... pressure simulations of an originally parameterised Gay-Beme potential in order to investigate the nature of the smectic-B phase in greater ...these simulations results analogous to those of constant volume ... See full document

... crystal phases – in particular, no smectic phases. We chose a simple idealized model of soft ellipsoids, which is particularly suited for large scale molecular dynamics simulations. Our work pursues two goals: ... See full document

... Via suitable parametrisation of our potential, we have performed molecular dynamics simulations studies which show that in addition to isotropic and crystal phases, discotic nematic and [r] ... See full document

... liquid crystals topological defects allow for an e↵ective description as SPPs interacting via an elastic potential [Giomi et ...from liquid crystals, which consist of aligning rod- like ... See full document

... of liquid crystal matrix provides a good option to control the release of drug form the system to obtain optimal delivery profile along with temporary protection of sore and sensitive ... See full document

... Each liquid crystal (LC) material has its own specific combination of structural moieties, which identify certain phase morphology, particular values of melting points and transition ... See full document

... nematic liquid crystals can be described by tensors, and how these tensors can be represented using the director components and the Kronecker and Levi-Civita ... See full document

... Apatone is a clinical phase investigational new drug for late-stage prostate cancer. It is currently under consideration for clinical study for potential applications such as augmentation of chemotherapy to allow lower, ... See full document

... We describe the local configuration of the nematic liquid crystal by means of the symmetric traceless tensor Q of second order moments of the local distribution of molecular orientations [12]. The local physical ... See full document