TY  - JOUR
AU  - Peón, J.
AU  - Saucedo-Zugazagoitia, J.
AU  - Pucheta-Mendez, F.
AU  - Perusquía, R.A.
AU  - Sutmann, G.
AU  - Quintana-H, J.
TI  - Two-dimensional chiral model for liquid crystals, bent hard needles: a Monte Carlo simulation
JO  - The journal of chemical physics
VL  - 125
SN  - 0021-9606
CY  - Melville, NY
PB  - American Institute of Physics
M1  - PreJuSER-48502
SP  - 104908
PY  - 2006
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - The liquid crystalline behavior of a two dimensional (2D) model of hard needles bent into a "zigzag shape" is studied. This model, originally designed to study two dimensional chiral segregation, also shows liquid crystalline behavior and has some anomalous features which are contrasted in relation to the following: (i) Most of the microscopical models used to study liquid crystals have a symmetry axis that coincides with a molecular axis; (ii) in three-dimensions, chiral molecules can form cholesteric instead of nematic phases; (iii) the smectic phase is usually found when attractions are present or at least when the molecules have finite volume. Despite the fact that the present 2D model does not have any of these characteristics, numerical evidence is found for the occurrence of nematic and smectic phases. Since these molecules are athermal, infinitely repulsive, and infinitesimally thin, the liquid crystalline characteristics are attributed to excluded volume effects. To determine the mesophases of the model, both nematic and smectic order parameters as well as distribution functions are computed.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:16999551
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000240500700043
DO  - DOI:10.1063/1.2338313
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/48502
ER  -