Host: The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society
Name : Japanese Liquid Crystal Conference 2012
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : September 05, 2012 - September 07, 2012
Smectic liquid crystalline monolayers have long been studied as the ideal two-dimensional system. In spite of that, the diffusion behavior of smectic monolayers, which is one of the important fundamental physical properties, has not been understood yet. For the purpose of analyzing this property, we carried out molecular dynamics simulations for the system of smectic monolayers. As a result, it was figured out that the diffusion parallel to the director is much faster than the one perpendicular to the director. It suggests that the inplane molecular diffusion in the smectic monolayer is not isotropic, but anisotropic.
