Hard competition: stabilizing the elusive biaxial nematic phase in suspensions of colloidal particles with extreme lengths

Simone Dussi, Nikos Tasios, Tara Drwenski +2

We use computer simulations to study the existence and stability of a biaxial nematic $N_b$ phase in systems of hard polyhedral cuboids, triangular prisms, and rhombic platelets, c…