This pedagogical overview of liquid crystals is based on lectures for postgraduate students
given at the International Max Planck Research School “Modeling of Soft Matter”. I am …

We use molecular dynamics to study the ordering of a nematic liquid crystal around a
spherical particle or droplet. Homeotropic boundary conditions and strong anchoring create …

Phase diagrams for Gay–Berne (GB) fluids were obtained from molecular dynamics
simulations for GB (2, 5, 1, 2)(ie short mesogens) and GB (3, 5, 1, 2)(ie long mesogens) …

This mini-review discusses the recent contribution of theoretical and computational physics
as well as experimental efforts to the understanding of the behavior of colloidal particles in …

We study the morphologies of nematic nanodrops in a vapor of a discotic nematogen by
Monte Carlo simulations. The fluid interactions are modeled by a Gay-Berne model with …

The effect of surface roughness on the structure of liquid crystalline fluids near solid
substrates is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. The liquid crystal is modeled as a fluid of …

Using classical density functional theory, the forces between two cylindrical nanoparticles in
a liquid crystal solvent are calculated. Both the nematic and isotropic phases of the solvent …

Optical simulations of a liquid crystal biosensor device are performed using an integrated
optical/textural model based on the equations of nematodynamics and two optical methods …

Theory and simulation of the nematic zenithal anchoring coefficient Page 1 Theory and
simulation of the nematic zenithal anchoring coefficient Denis Andrienko and Michael P. Allen …

We study the interactions between a nematic liquid crystal disclination and the surface of the
half-space which bounds it. When strong anchoring conditions are applied on the boundary …