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Original Articles

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Calamitic and Discotic Liquid Crystals using a Hybrid Gay-Berne Luckhurst Romano Potential

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Pages 245-258 | Received 01 Sep 1993, Accepted 01 Jan 1995, Published online: 23 Sep 2006

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