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DOI: 10.1039/A607571A (Paper) Reference Section for: J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 1997, 93, 1493-1496

Monte Carlo simulation of discotic Gay–Berne mesogens with axial dipole

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Roberto Berardi, Silvia Orlandi and Claudio Zannoni

Abstract

We have studied a system of N=103 discotic particles with a central axial dipole using Monte Carlo computer simulations. We have investigated four temperatures corresponding to isotropic, nematic and columnar liquid-crystal phases determining the molecular and dipolar distributions and the length of the polar domains in the columns.

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