Development of Coarse-Grained Liquid-Crystal Polymer Model with Efficient Electrostatic Interaction: Toward Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Electroactive Materials

Liquid-crystal polymers (LCPs) are well known materials for functional sensor and actuators, because of their high-responsiveness to an electric field. Owing to their complex physical nature, however, the prediction of the functions of LCPs is a challenge. To attack this problem from a molecular poi...

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Main Authors: Kenji Tagashira, Kazuaki Z. Takahashi, Jun-ichi Fukuda, Takeshi Aoyagi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-01-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/11/1/83