Isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals confined between rough walls

Details Isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals confined between rough walls Isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals confined between rough walls

2005-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511198v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures Accepted in Chemical Physics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.cplett.2005.11.010

The effect of rough walls on the phase behaviour of a confined liquid crystal (LC) fluid is studied using constant pressure Monte Carlo simulations. The LC is modelled as a fluid of soft ellipsoidal molecules and the rough walls are represented as a hard wall with a number of molecules randomly embedded in them. It is found that the isotropic-nematic (IN) transition is shifted to higher pressures for rougher walls.

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