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Violetta Raczyńska1, Krzysztof Górny1, Przemysław Raczyński1
1Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Silesia in Katowice, ul. 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland.
Abstract:
The properties of composites of mesogens and two-dimensional (2D) materials are of great interest due to their practical applications in flexible displays, optoelectronics, microelectronics, and novel nanodevices. The properties of such composites are very complex and strongly depend on the interactions between the host material and the mesogen filling. We have performed molecular dynamics simulations for 4-cyano-4^{'}-pentylbiphenyl embedded between graphene and hexagonal 2D boron nitride layers. The structural and dynamical properties of such systems were investigated in terms of the order parameters, density profiles, mean square displacement, and autocorrelation function of the single-molecule dipole moment. Our simulations have shown that the mesogenic molecules form highly stable ordered layered structures and that their dynamics are strongly related to the structural properties. We have investigated not only the effects of the polarization of the host material, but also the effects of the spatial repetition of such composites by using two models of mesogens embedded in 2D layers: the direct sheet and the structure formed by multiplying a single unit of the composite in the direction perpendicular to the substrate surface.
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