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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 122, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1879852
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Simulations of nematic and smectic mesophases based on a dissipative particle dynamics approach are discussed. Mesogenic units are built in the form of standard semirigid bead-spring chains. It is shown that nematic phases can be formed for chains containing at least eight beads, provided that the conservative soft-repulsive potential between nonconnected beads is sufficiently strong. Smectic phases are observed only by modifying the repulsive interaction between the main-chain and terminal beads. The simulations indicate that the smectic-nematic and smectic-isotropic phase transitions take place through the buckling of the smectic layering in the system. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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