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Isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals confined between rough walls

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arxiv cond-mat/0511198 v1 pith:7PJXUUC3 submitted 2005-11-08 cond-mat.soft

Isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals confined between rough walls

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keywords wallsroughconfinedfluidisotropic-nematicliquidmoleculestransition
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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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