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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 177)
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About this book
Liquid crystals, polymers and polymer liquid crystals are soft condensed matter systems of major technological and scientific interest. An understanding of the macroscopic properties of these complex systems and of their many and interesting peculiarities at the molecular level can nowadays only be attained using computer simulations and statistical mechanical theories. Both in the Liquid Crystal and Polymer fields a considerable amount of simulation work has been done in the last few years with various classes of models at different special resolutions, ranging from atomistic to molecular and coarse-grained lattice models. Each of the two fields has developed its own set of tools and specialized procedures and the book aims to provide a state of the art review of the computer simulation studies of polymers and liquid crystals. This is of great importance in view of a potential cross-fertilization between these connected areas which is particularly apparent for a number of experimental systems like, e.g. polymer liquid crystals and anisotropic gels where the different fields necessarily merge. An effort has been made to assess the possibilities of a coherent description of the themes that have developed independently, and to compare and extend the theoretical and computational techniques put forward in the different areas.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computer Simulations of Liquid Crystals and Polymers
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computational Methods for Polymers and Liquid Crystalline Polymers, Erice, Italy. 16-22 July 2003
Editors: Paolo Pasini, Claudio Zannoni, Slobodan Žumer
Series Title: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2760-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2758-1Published: 15 February 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2759-8Published: 15 February 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2760-4Published: 11 August 2005
Series ISSN: 1568-2609
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 364
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Applications in Chemistry, Polymer Sciences, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation