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*[[Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model]] | *[[Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model]] | ||
*[[Lebwohl-Lasher model]] | *[[Lebwohl-Lasher model]] | ||
===Site-site potentials=== | |||
*[[Hard ellipsoids]] | |||
*[[Hard spherocylinders]] | |||
*[[Tangent linear hard sphere chains]] | |||
*[[Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model]] (RFFFHS) | *[[Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model]] (RFFFHS) | ||
*[[Single site anisotropic soft-core potential]] | |||
*[[Gay-Berne model]] | |||
===Realistic models=== | |||
*[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]] | *[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]] | ||
Revision as of 11:36, 28 January 2008
- Discotic liquid crystals
- Frank elastic constants
- History of liquid crystals
- Ionic liquid crystals
- Odd-even effect
- Onsager theory
- Order parameters
- Side-chain liquid crystals
- Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals
- Isotropic-nematic phase transition
- Nematic-smectic phase transition
Models
- Maier-Saupe mean field model
- Kobayashi-McMillan smectic theory
- Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model
- Lebwohl-Lasher model
Site-site potentials
- Hard ellipsoids
- Hard spherocylinders
- Tangent linear hard sphere chains
- Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model (RFFFHS)
- Single site anisotropic soft-core potential
- Gay-Berne model