A Gay–Berne potential for dissimilar biaxial particles

We present a generalized biaxial Gay-Berne potential describing the interaction between two arbitrary, not necessarily . identical, AB ellipsoidal particles. The model does not rely on approximate combination rules like that of Berthelot, but the

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