A simple theory of molecular organization in fullerene-containing liquid crystals
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A simple theory of molecular organization in fullerene-containing liquid crystals.
Systematic efforts to synthesize fullerene-containing liquid crystals have produced a variety of successful model compounds. We present a simple molecular theory, based on the interconverting shape approach [Vanakaras and Photinos, J. Mater. Chem. 15, 2002 (2005)], that relates the self-organization observed in these systems to their molecular structure. The interactions are modeled by dividing...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.2085026