title: From gas-liquid to liquid crystalline phase behavior via anisotropic attraction: a computer simulation study.
abstract: The partial phase behavior of a continuum molecular model for self-assembling semiflexible equilibrium polymers is studied via Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulation. We investigate the transfer from ordinary gas-liquid coexistence to the appearance of liquid crystallinity driven by excluded volume interaction between rodlike aggregates. The transfer between the two types of phase behavior is governed by a tunable anisotropic attractive interaction between monomer particles. The relation to dipolar fluid models, which are also known to form reversible chains, is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Bergische Universität, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: Wen-Ze
authors.initials: WZ
authors.lastname: Ouyang
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hentschke