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Thermotropic Biaxial Nematics: Spontaneous or Field-Stabilized?
Alexandros G. Vanakaras, Demetri J. Photinos
An intermediate nematic phase is proposed for the interpretation of recent experimental results on phase biaxiality in bent-core nematics. The phase is macroscopically uniaxial but…
Helix formation in linear achiral dendronized polymers. A computer simulation study
D. K. Christopoulos, A. F. Terzis, A. G. Vanakaras +1
We present a molecular simulation study of the structure of linear dendronized polymers. We use excluded volume interactions in the context of a generic coarse-grained molecular mo…
Molecular Theory of Dendritic Liquid Crystals: Self Organization and Phase Transitions
Alexandros G. Vanakaras, Demetri J. Photinos
We formulate the configurational partition function for dendrimers, taking explicit account of their conformations and segmental interactions. Two approximate schemes are presented…
A simple theory of molecular organization in fullerene containing liquid crystals
S. D. Peroukidis, A. G. Vanakaras, D. J. Photinos
Systematic efforts to synthesise fullerene containing LCs have produced a variety of successful model compounds. We present a simple molecular theory relating the self-organisation…
On the molecular theory of dimer liquid crystals
P. K. Karahaliou, A. G. Vanakaras, D. J. Photinos
We present a statistical mechanics approximation scheme for the explicit treatment of spacer-mediated configurational correlations among the mesogenic units that form a dimer molec…