3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Polydisperse Achiral Near-Rigid Nematogens
William S. Fall, Henricus H. Wensink
Understanding chirality transfer from the molecular to the macroscopic scale poses a significant challenge in soft and biological condensed matter physics. Many nanorods of biologi…
cond-mat.soft2025
Freezing in flat monolayers of soft spherocylinders
Jaydeep Mandal, Henricus H. Wensink, Prabal K. Maiti
Lamellar or smectic phases often have an intricate intralamellar structure that remains scarcely understood from a microscopic viewpoint. In this work, we use molecular dynamics si…
cond-mat.soft2024
Complex Smectic Phases in Polymer Grafted Shape-Uniform Cellulose Nano-Crystals
William S. Fall, Henricus H. Wensink
The effect of short chain grafting on the liquid crystalline (LC) ordering of nano-crystals is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained grafted nano-ro…