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Chirality transfer in lyotropic twist-bend nematics
Anna Ashkinazi, Hemani Chhabra, Anouar El Moumane +2
Using molecular simulations and classical density functional theory, we study the liquid-crystalline phase behaviour of a series of bent rod-like mesogens with a controlled degree…
Elucidating chirality transfer in liquid crystals of viruses
Eric Grelet, Maxime Tortora
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature across all length scales, with major implications spanning the fields of biology, chemistry and physics to materials science. How chirality propag…
Orientational wetting and topological transitions in confined solutions of semi-flexible polymers
Maxime M. C. Tortora, Daniel Jost
Despite their considerable practical and biological applications, the link between molecular properties, assembly conditions and self-organized structure in confined polymer soluti…
Morphogenesis and self-organization of persistent filaments confined within flexible biopolymeric shells
Maxime M. C. Tortora, Daniel Jost
We systematically explore the self-assembly of semi-flexible polymers in deformable spherical confinement across a wide regime of chain stiffness, contour lengths and packing fract…
Computing the elastic mechanical properties of rod-like DNA nanostructures
Hemani Chhabra, Garima Mishra, Yijing Cao +4
To study the elastic properties of rod-like DNA nanostructures, we perform long simulations of these structure using the oxDNA coarse-grained model. By analysing the fluctuations i…
Chiral shape fluctuations and the origin of chirality in cholesteric phases of DNA origamis
Maxime M. C. Tortora, Garima Mishra, Domen Presern +1
Lyotropic cholesteric liquid crystal phases are ubiquitously observed in biological and synthetic polymer solutions, characterized by a complex interplay between thermal fluctuatio…
Incorporating particle flexibility in a density functional description of nematics and cholesterics
Maxime M. C. Tortora, Jonathan P. K. Doye
We describe a general implementation of the Fynewever-Yethiraj density functional theory (DFT) for the investigation of nematic and cholesteric self-assembly in arbitrary solutions…
Hierarchical bounding structures for efficient virial computations: Towards a realistic molecular description of cholesterics
Maxime M. C. Tortora, Jonathan P. K. Doye
We detail the application of bounding volume hierarchies to accelerate second-virial evaluations for arbitrary complex particles interacting through hard and soft finite-range pote…
Perturbative density functional methods for cholesteric liquid crystals
Maxime M. C. Tortora, Jonathan P. K. Doye
We introduce a comprehensive numerical framework to generically infer the emergent macroscopic properties of uniaxial nematic and cholesteric phases from that of their microscopic…