Liquid Crystals
Principal Investigators: Juan de Pablo, Jonathan Whitmer, and Paul Nealey (experimentalist)
Atomistic Structure
- Nematic crystals from XRD
- Condensed phases
Target properties
- Surface free energy (W) and elastic constants (L, k)
- Morphology
- Assembly pathways
Approximations and models to be validated
- Force fields
- Models for W, L, K
