Inorganic layered crystals such as clay minerals, layered niobates, and graphite are
exfoliated in solvents to form colloidal dispersions of extremely thin inorganic nanosheets …

In this article we review the mesogenic properties of the mineral liquid crystals (MLCs)
based on molecular nanowires: Li 2 Mo 6 Se 6; nanotubes: Imogolite and NaNb 2 PS 10; …

This chapter deals with the applications of the density functional (DF) formalism to the study
of inhomogeneous systems with hard core interactions. It includes a brief tutorial on the …

Gravity can affect colloidal suspensions since for micrometer-sized particles gravitational
and thermal energies can be comparable over vertical length scales of a few millimeters. In …

Concentrated solutions of short blunt-ended DNA duplexes, as short as 6 base pairs, are
known to order into the nematic liquid crystal phases. This self-assembly is due to the …

A general theoretical framework is proposed to quantify the thermodynamic properties of
multicomponent hard colloidal mixtures. This framework is used to predict the phase …

Inorganic layered crystals exemplified by clay minerals can be exfoliated in solvents to form
colloidal dispersions of extremely thin inorganic layers that are called nanosheets. The …

The density-dependent distribution function of the orientation of the long axis of rod-like
colloidal particles in the liquid crystalline nematic phase is numerically calculated as the …

The molecular theory of Onsager [L. Onsager, Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 51, 627 (1949)] for liquid
crystals is developed and extended to describe ordering transitions in systems of generic …

Variational cluster calculations and Monte Carlo simulations are applied to hard-body board-
like models of biaxial molecules forming liquid crystalline phases. The molecular long axes …