Progress in computer simulations of liquid crystals

MR Wilson - International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews some of the recent progress in the simulation of liquid crystals across a
range of length and time scales. Simulators now have an extensive range of models at their …

[LIBRO][B] Coarse-graining of condensed phase and biomolecular systems

GA Voth - 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
Exploring recent developments in the field, Coarse-Graining of Condensed Phase and
Biomolecular Systems examines systematic ways of constructing coarse-grained …

Role of Anisotropy in Understanding the Molecular Grounds for Density Scaling in Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids

A Grzybowski, K Koperwas… - Reports on Progress in …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular Dynamics MD simulations of glass-forming liquids play a pivotal role in
uncovering the molecular nature of the liquid vitrification process. In particular, much focus …

Impact of molecular-level structural disruption on relaxation dynamics of polymers with end-on and side-on liquid crystal moieties

D Becerra, Y Xu, X Wang, LM Hall - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
In side-chain liquid crystal polymers (SCLCPs), short side chains are attached on a flexible
polymer backbone, and each side chain can have a liquid crystal (LC) group attached at the …

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Bulk Atactic Polystyrene in the Vicinity of Tg

AV Lyulin, MAJ Michels - Macromolecules, 2002 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of bulk atactic polystyrene have been performed for
chains up to 320 monomer units in a temperature range from 100 to 600 K and in a broad …

A new insight into the isotropic–nematic phase transition in lyotropic solutions of semiflexible polymers: Density-functional theory tested by molecular dynamics

SA Egorov, A Milchev, P Virnau, K Binder - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiflexible polymers in solution are studied for a wide range of both contour length L and
persistence length p as a function of monomer concentration under good solvent conditions …

Molecular simulation approaches to the study of thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals

MR Wilson, G Yu, TD Potter, M Walker, SJ Gray, J Li… - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the last decade, the availability of computer time, together with new algorithms capable
of exploiting parallel computer architectures, has opened up many possibilities in …

A domain decomposition molecular dynamics program for the simulation of flexible molecules of spherically-symmetrical and nonspherical sites. II. Extension to NVT …

JM Ilnytskyi, MR Wilson - Computer physics communications, 2002 - Elsevier
We describe the algorithms for NVT and NPT-ensemble simulations developed within the
parallel molecular dynamics program GBMOLDD. This program uses the domain …

Nematic order in solutions of semiflexible polymers: Hairpins, elastic constants, and the nematic-smectic transition

A Milchev, SA Egorov, K Binder… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Coarse-grained models of lyotropic solutions of semiflexible polymers are studied by both
molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations, using an implicit …

A combined experimental and molecular dynamic studies of curing of shape memory lignin-liquid crystalline elastomeric composites

P Prathumrat, M Nikzad, Z Shireen, E Hajizadeh… - … Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Elastomeric liquid crystalline (ELC) composites have recently been developed to be utilised
as thermomechanically activated shape memory materials. To extend their utility for a range …