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Rheology of Lamellar Liquid Crystals in Two and Three Dimensions: A Simulation Study
O. Henrich, K. Stratford, D. Marenduzzo +2
We present large scale computer simulations of the nonlinear bulk rheology of lamellar phases (smectic liquid crystals) at moderate to large values of the shear rate (Peclet number…
Confined Cubic Blue Phases under Shear
O. Henrich, K. Stratford, D. Marenduzzo +2
We study the behaviour of confined cubic blue phases under shear flow via lattice Boltzmann simulations. We focus on the two experimentally observed phases, blue phase I and blue p…
On the structure of blue phase III
O. Henrich, K. Stratford, M. E. Cates +1
We report large scale simulations of the blue phases of cholesteric liquid crystals. Our results suggest a structure for blue phase III, the blue fog, which has been the subject of…
Bistable defect structures in blue phase devices
A. Tiribocchi, G. Gonnella, D. Marenduzzo +2
Blue phases (BPs) are liquid crystals made up by networks of defects, or disclination lines. While existing phase diagrams show a striking variety of competing metastable topologie…
Colloids in a bacterial bath: simulations and experiments
Chantal Valeriani, Martin Li, John Novosel +2
We present a joint experimental and computational study of the effect of bacterial motion on micron-scale colloids contained in a two-dimensional suspension of Bacillus subtilis. W…
Switching dynamics in cholesteric blue phases
A. Tiribocchi, G. Gonnella, D. Marenduzzo +1
Blue phases are networks of disclination lines, which occur in cholesteric liquid crystals near the transition to the isotropic phase. They have recently been used for the new gene…
Colloids in liquid crystals: a lattice Boltzmann study
J. S. Lintuvuori, D. Marenduzzo, K. Stratford +1
We propose a hybrid lattice Boltzmann algorithm to simulate the hydrodynamics of colloidal particles inside a liquid crystalline host. To validate our algorithm, we study the stati…
Switching and defect dynamics in multistable liquid crystal devices
A. Tiribocchi, G. Gonnella, D. Marenduzzo +1
We investigate the switching dynamics of multistable nematic liquid crystal devices. In particular we identify a remarkably simple 2-dimensional (2D) device which exploits hybrid a…
Colloids in Cholesterics: Size-Dependent Defects and Non-Stokesian Microrheology
J. S. Lintuvuori, K. Stratford, M. E. Cates +1
We simulate a colloidal particle (radius R) in a cholesteric liquid crystal (pitch p) with tangential order parameter alignment at the particle surface. The local defect structure…