Computer simulation of the interface between two liquid crystalline phases in rod-plate binary mixtures

被引：23

作者：

Galindo, A ^{[1
]}

Jackson, G

Photinos, DJ

机构：

[1] Univ Patras, Dept Phys, Patras 26500, Greece

[2] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Chem Engn & Chem Technol, London SW7 2BY, England

来源：

CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS | 2000年 / 325卷 / 5-6期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

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D O I：

10.1016/S0009-2614(00)00702-8

中图分类号：

O64 [物理化学（理论化学）、化学物理学];

学科分类号：

070304 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

Metropolis Monte Carlo NVT computer simulations of 50:50 mixtures of L/D = 5 hard spherocylinders (N-HSC = 510) and L/D = 0.12 hard cut spheres (N-CS = 510) have been performed. At the start of the simulation, the system is taken as a totally demixed state of Fun rods and pure plates. For a packing fraction of 44% the system is found to be a fully mixed isotropic state, while at 48% two ordered phases (one rich in rods and one rich in plates) are found to coexist. In this Letter we examine the stable foe interface between the two liquid crystalline phases paying special attention to the orientational order through the interface. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：631 / 638

页数：8

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