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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…
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…