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Based on a constant-pressure Monte Carlo molecular simulation, we have studied orientationally ordered transitions of small anisotropic molecules confined in two parallel hard walls. These molecules are modeled by the hard Gaussian overlap model. The molecular elongations of the chosen molecules are so small that the molecules cannot form stable liquid-crystal (LC) phases in the bulk. But in the slit pores, we found, while the distance between two walls of the pores decreases to the molecular scale, an orientationally ordered phase can form. It shows that even hard confining surfaces favor the alignment of the small anisotropic molecules. Thus we conclude that the required molecular elongation for forming LC phases will decrease in confinement. Our results indicate that some non-LC small molecules may form stable LC phases due to the inducement of confining surfaces.

Orientational orders of small anisotropic molecules confined in slit pores