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Coexistence between the isotropic and the nematic phase in suspensions ofrods is studied using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations with a bias onthe nematic order parameter. The biasing scheme makes it possible to estimatethe interfacial tension gamma in systems of hard and soft rods. For hard rodswith L/D=15, we obtain gamma ~ 1.4 kB T/L^2, with L the rod length, D the roddiameter, T the temperature, and kB the Boltzmann constant. This estimate is ingood agreement with theoretical predictions, and the order of magnitude isconsistent with experiments.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figure

Isotropic-nematic interfacial tension of hard and soft rods: Application of advanced grand canonical biased-sampling techniques