Mesogenic materials exhibit a multitude of transitions involving new phases. Studies of
these phases are of importance in a wide range of scientific fields and as such have …

Biaxial nematic (N b) liquid crystals are a fascinating condensed matter phase that has
baffled, for more than thirty years, scientists engaged in the challenge of demonstrating its …

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

Mesogenic molecules invariably deviate from the cylindrical symmetry usually assumed for
them. One consequence of this is that, in addition to the ubiquitous uniaxial nematic phase …

A review is presented of molecular and mesoscopic computer simulations of liquid
crystalline systems. Molecular simulation approaches applied to such systems are …

The still undiscovered fluid ferroelectric nematic phase is expected to exhibit a much faster
and easier response to an external electric field compared to conventional ferroelectric …

With rapidly expanding interest in liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers among the
liquid crystal community, researchers are currently exploring the wide range of possible …

The simulation of systems of simple particles interacting through a suitable model potential
allows the identification of the essential physical features (anisotropy and biaxiality …

Using two order tensors, we propose a mean-field model to describe the uniaxial and biaxial
phases of nematogenic molecules presenting a shape dispersion of their biaxial dielectric …

We have investigated with extensive Monte Carlo simulations in the isothermal isobaric
ensemble a system of N 8192 elongated attractive-repulsive biaxial Gay–Berne GB …