Factors influencing thermal solidification of bent-core trimers.

@article{Salcedo2019FactorsIT,
  title={Factors influencing thermal solidification of bent-core trimers.},
  author={Elvin D. Salcedo and Hong T. T. Nguyen and Robert S. Hoy},
  journal={The Journal of chemical physics},
  year={2019},
  volume={151 13},
  pages={
          134501
        }
}
Bent-core trimers are a simple model system for which the competition between crystallization and glass-formation can be tuned by varying a single parameter: the bond angle θ0. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we examine how varying θ0 affects their thermal solidification. By examining trends with θ0, comparing these to the trends in trimers' jamming phenomenology, and then focusing on the six θ0 that are commensurable with close-packed crystalline order, we obtain three key results: (i… 
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