Charge ordering induces a smectic phase in oblate ionic liquid crystals
Statistical Mechanics
2015-05-18 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We report a computer simulation study of an electroneutral mixture of oppositely charged oblate ellipsoids of revolution with aspect ratio A = 1/3. In contrast to hard or soft repulsive ellipsoids, which are purely nematic, this system exhibits a smectic-A phase in which charges of equal sign are counterintuitively packed in layers perpendicular to the nematic director.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1004.2324,
title = {Charge ordering induces a smectic phase in oblate ionic liquid crystals},
author = {G. C. Ganzenmüller and G. N. Patey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.2324},
year = {2015}
}