@article {4746,
	title = {Monte Carlo simulations of zero electric field gradient liquid crystal mixtures},
	journal = {Chemical Physics Letters},
	volume = {331},
	number = {5-6},
	year = {2000},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 382YCTimes Cited: 13Cited Reference Count: 14},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {455-464},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {We explore with Monte Carlo simulations the NMR finding that solutes in special nematic liquid crystal mixtures {\textquoteright}feel{\textquoteright} zero average electric field gradient F-ZZ. The simulations involve solute-solvent mixtures of 1000 identical Gay-Berne ellipsoidal particles with added electric quadrupoles of varying strengths placed at particle centres. As long as all quadrupoles are sufficiently small, F-ZZ calculated at the particle centres is equal for all particles. For larger quadrupole moments, interactions among quadrupoles alter the interparticle distribution and subsequently F-ZZ depends on both solvent and solute quadrupoles; in general, the quadrupolar interactions produce a negative contribution to energy. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {NMR, orientational order, SHAPE, SOLUTES},
	isbn = {0009-2614},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000165854100016},
	author = {Burnell, E. E. and Berardi, R. and Syvitski, R. T. and Zannoni, C.}
}
