Modeling liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) at the molecular level is crucial for the predictable
design of energy-conversion-and stimuli-responsive materials. Here, we develop a self …

We study the mechanism of the polydomain-monodomain transition in liquid crystalline
elastomers at the molecular scale. A coarse-grained model is proposed in which mesogens …

We investigate the connections between some simple Maier-Saupe lattice models, with a
discrete choice of orientations of the microscopic directors, and a recent proposal of a two …

We report detailed statistical mechanics calculations to analyse the field-temperature phase
diagram of a fully connected Maier–Saupe–Zwanzig (MSZ) lattice model for the nematic …

We perform exact statistical mechanics calculations for a system of elongated objects (hard
needles) that are restricted to translate along a line and rotate within a plane, and that …

ABSTRACT The Maier-Saupe theory of the nematic phase transitions, with the requirement
that the molecular directors are restricted to the Cartesian axes, can be formulated as a fully …

We use an infinite-range Maier–Saupe model, with two sets of local quadrupolar variables
and restricted orientations, to investigate the global phase diagram of a coupled system of …

This work is dedicated to the study of the discrete version of the Maier-Saupe model in the
presence of competing interactions. The competition between interactions favoring different …

We perform statistical mechanics calculations to analyze the global phase diagram of a fully
connected version of a Maier-Saupe-Zwanzig lattice model with the inclusion of couplings to …

We propose a lattice statistical model to investigate the phase diagrams and the soft
responses of nematic liquid-crystal elastomers. Using suitably scaled infinite-range …