Computer simulations of hard pear-shaped particles
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Computer simulations of hard pear-shaped particles.
We report results obtained from Monte Carlo simulations investigating mesophase formation in two model systems of hard pear-shaped particles. The first model considered is a hard variant of the truncated Stone-expansion model previously shown to form nematic and smectic mesophases when embedded within a 12-6 Gay-Berne-like potential [R. Berardi, M. Ricci, and C. Zannoni, ChemPhysChem 7, 443 (20...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.68.021708