✦ LIBER ✦
Monte Carlo simulations using the dipolar Gay-Berne model: effect of terminal dipole moment on mesophase formation
✍ Scribed by K. Satoh; S. Mita; S. Kondo
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 405 KB
- Volume
- 255
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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✦ Synopsis
The effects of dipole-dipole interaction on mesophase formation are investigated with a Monte Carlo simulation using the dipolar Gay-Berne potential. It is shown that the dipole moment at the end of a molecule causes a shift in the nematic-isotropic transition toward higher temperature and a spread of the temperature range of the nematic phase and that layer structures with various interdigitations are formed in the smectic phase.