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