Computer Simulations of Liquid Crystals and Polymers Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computational Methods for Polymers and Liquid Crystalline Polymers Erice, Italy 16–22 July 2003 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pasini, Paolo (Editor), Zannoni, Claudio (Editor), Žumer, Slobodan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 177
• Subjects: Physics.; Chemoinformatics.; Polymers.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Condensed matter.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Computer Applications in Chemistry.; Polymer Sciences.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Numerical and Computational Physics.

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...