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SOFT MATTER
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 2017-2025Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06838e
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- EU-STREP Biaxial Nematic Devices'' (BIND) [216025]
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Molecular dynamics computer simulations have been employed to demonstrate that the addition of a suitable uniaxial discotic nematic to a biaxial nematic (N-b) of elongated mesogens can give rise to a low temperature N-b liquid crystal (where the rod-like particles would form a biaxial smectic). The two species are made to be fully miscible over the entire isotropic and nematic temperature range by a suitable parameterisation of shapes and pair interactions. The disc-like mesogen, even though not forming a biaxial nematic by itself gives a stable low-temperature discotic nematic which strongly disfavours the formation of columnar and smectic phases in the two-component system.
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