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Phase Behavior of Charged Vesicles Under Symmetric and Asymmetric Solution Conditions Monitored with Fluorescence Microscopy
Published on: October 24, 2017
Phase behavior of hard C_{2h}-symmetric particle systems
Christian D'Urso1, Giorgio Celebre1, Giorgio Cinacchi2
1Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università della Calabria, via P. Bucci, I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy.
Abstract:
Using Monte Carlo numerical simulation, this work sketches the phase diagram of systems of certain hard C_{2h}-symmetric particles, formed by gluing two aligned and displaced hard spherocylinders with a cylindrical-length-to-diameter ratio realistically, if viewed not only from the lyotropic colloidal liquid-crystal side but also from the thermotropic low-molecular-mass liquid-crystal side, equal to 5, as a function of the displacement. Several distinctive phases are observed, such as a nonperiodic smectic-B-like phase, a nonperiodic smectic-H-like phase, a smectic-C phase, and a short-layer-spacing uniaxial smectic-A phase but no biaxial nematic phase.
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