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We have used Monte Carlo NPT computer simulations to study a system of spherical fan shaped particles made of three hard discs fused along a common diameter. The calculated equation of state indicates a strong, entropy driven, first order transition from the isotropic phase to a layered phase that has the basic characteristics of the usual smectic A mesophase but with strongly correlated rotations about the symmetry axes of neighbouring molecules.

Author

Vanakaras, A. G.; Photinos, D. J.

Published

2001

Language

EN