When bigger is faster: a self-van Hove analysis of the enhanced self-diffusion of non-commensurate guest particles in smectics

M. Paul Lettinga, Laura Alvarez, Olivera Korculanin +1

We investigate the anomalous dynamics in smectic phases of short host rods where, counter-intuitively, long guest rod-shaped particles diffusive faster than the short host ones, du…