Ultraconfined oblate hard particles between hybrid penetrable walls

C Anquetil-Deck, DJ Cleaver, PIC Teixeira - Physical Review E, 2024‏ - APS
We have investigated, by Monte Carlo simulation, the orientational structure of very thin films
of a discotic liquid crystal (DLC) confined between hybrid walls of controllable penetrability …

Phase transitions and topological defects in discotic liquid crystal droplets with planar anchoring: a Monte Carlo simulation study

D Salgado-Blanco, E Díaz-Herrera… - Soft Matter, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In this work we present the results of Monte Carlo (MC) simulations at the isothermal–
isobaric ensemble for a discotic liquid crystal (DLC) droplet whose surface promotes edge …

Dynamics of colloidal cubes and cuboids in cylindrical nanopores

A Patti, A Cuetos - Physics of Fluids, 2021‏ - pubs.aip.org
Understanding how colloidal suspensions behave in confined environments has a striking
relevance in practical applications. Despite the fact that the behavior of colloids in the bulk is …

Orientational properties of the HGO system in a slit geometry in two-dimensional and three-dimensional case from Monte-Carlo simulations and Onsager theory …

A Chrzanowska - Liquid Crystals, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A problem of the orientational and density structure properties of a confined
three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) hard Gaussian overlap ellipsoids has …

Structural and dynamical equilibrium properties of hard board-like particles in parallel confinement

L Tonti, FA García Daza… - The Journal of …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
We performed Monte Carlo and dynamic Monte Carlo simulations to model the diffusion of
monodispersed suspensions composed of impenetrable cuboidal particles, specifically hard …

Computer simulation study of confined oblate hard ellipsoid liquid crystals: Hard-disk–wall interaction

M Aghaei Semiromi, A Avazpour, Z Jaafari - Physical Review E, 2025‏ - APS
In this study, instead of an approximate hard Gaussian overlap model, the effects of
confinement on a system of oblate hard ellipsoid (OHE) particles interacting with planar …

Theoretical and simulation study of confined oblate hard ellipsoid liquid crystals: NPT, NVT and extended restricted orientation model

Z Jaafari, A Avazpour, MA Semiromi… - Molecular Physics, 2025‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this study, confinement effects on a system of oblate hard ellipsoid (OHE) particles
interacting with planar substrates through the hard wall potential (HWP) were studied using …

A simple predictor of interface orientation of fluids of disk-like anisotropic particles and its implications for organic semiconductors

BJ Boehm, DM Huang - Soft Matter, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
From classical molecular dynamics simulations, we identify a simple and general predictor
of molecular orientation at solid and vapour interfaces of isotropic fluids of disk-like …

Pressure-tensor method evaluation of the interfacial tension between Gay–Berne isotropic fluid and a smooth repulsive wall

J Kaur, D Deb - Soft Matter, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The interfacial properties of a confined thermotropic liquid crystalline material are
investigated using a molecular dynamics simulation technique. The pairwise interaction …

A simple predictor of interface orientation of mesogenic fluids and its implications for organic semiconductors

B Boehm, D Huang - 2022‏ - chemrxiv.org
From classical molecular dynamics simulations, we identify a simple and general predictor
of molecular orientation at solid and vapour interfaces of isotropic fluids of anisotropic …