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Frustration of the isotropic-columnar phase transition of colloidal hard platelets by a transient cubatic phase
Matthieu Marechal, Alessandro Patti, Matthew Dennison +1
Using simulations and theory, we show that the cubatic phase is metastable for three model hard platelets. The locally favored structures of perpendicular particle stacks in the fl…
cond-mat.soft2011★ 69 cited
Polydispersity stabilizes Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
S. Belli, A. Patti, M. Dijkstra +1
Inspired by the observations of a remarkably stable biaxial nematic phase [E.v.d. Pol et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 258301 (2009)], we investigate the effect of size polydispersity…