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Phases, morphologies, and transitions in a membrane model for the endoplasmic reticulum
Jaya Kumar Alageshan, Yashodhan Hatwalne, Rahul Pandit
We introduce a novel model, comprising self-avoiding surfaces and incorporating edges and tubules, that is designed to characterize the structural morphologies and transitions obse…
Packing and emergence of ordering of rods in a spherical monolayer
Dharanish Rajendra, Jaydeep Mandal, Yashodhan Hatwalne +1
Spatially ordered systems confined to surfaces such as spheres exhibit interesting topological structures because of curvature induced frustration in orientational as well as trans…
Stability of topological wall defects on spheres with n-atic order
C. Saichand, Jaya Kumar Alageshan, Arun Roy +1
Topological point defects on orientationally ordered spheres, and on deformable fluid vesicles have been partly motivated by their potential applications in creating super-atoms wi…
Equilibrium of fluid membranes with tangent-plane order (TPO), elasticity of smectics with TPO, and dispiration asymmetry in smectics-C*
Jaya Kumar A., Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Yashodhan Hatwalne
Fluid membranes endowed with tangent-plane order (TPO) such as tilt- and hexatic order afford unique soft matter systems for investigating the interplay between elasticity, shape,…
A novel modulated phase of liquid crystals: Covariant elasticity in the context of soft, achiral smectic-C materials
P. R. Venkatramanan, Yashodhan Hatwalne, N. V. Madhusudana
Ginzburg-Landau-de Gennes -type covariant theories are extensively used in connection with twist grain boundary (TGB) phases of chiral smectogens. We analyze the stability conditio…
Laser induced rotation of trapped chiral and achiral nematic droplets
Marjan Mosallaeipour, Yashodhan Hatwalne, N. V. Madhusudana +1
We study the response of optically trapped achiral and chiralised nematic liquid crystal droplets to linear as well as circular polarised light. We find that there is internal diss…