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*[[Hard ellipsoids]] | *[[Hard ellipsoids]] | ||
*[[Hard spherocylinders]] | *[[Hard spherocylinders]] | ||
*[[Charged hard spherocylinders]] | |||
*[[Tangent linear hard sphere chains]] | *[[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]] | *[[Single site anisotropic soft-core potential]] | ||
*[[Gay-Berne model]] | *[[Gay-Berne model]] | ||
===Realistic models=== | ===Realistic models=== | ||
*[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]] | *[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]] | ||
[[category:Complex systems]] | [[category:Complex systems]] | ||
[[category: liquid crystals]] | [[category: liquid crystals]] | ||
Revision as of 13:27, 1 February 2008
General
- 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
Phases
- Nematic phase
- Smectic phases
- Columnar phase
- Blue phase
- Chiral phases
- Micelles
- Twisted grain-boundary phase
Phase transitions
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
- Charged hard spherocylinders
- Tangent linear hard sphere chains
- Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model (RFFFHS)
- Single site anisotropic soft-core potential
- Gay-Berne model