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A bound on the free energy of tensionless membranes
Francesco Serafin, Mark J. Bowick
Using the proof of Willmore's conjecture by Marques and Neves, we conjecture that the free energy of tensionless fluid membranes of arbitrary genus has an upper bound. This implies…
Frustrated Self-Assembly of Non-Euclidean Crystals of Nanoparticles
Francesco Serafin, Jun Lu, Nicholas Kotov +2
Self-organized complex structures in nature, e.g. viral capsids, hierarchical biopolymers, and bacterial flagella, offer efficiency, adaptability, robustness, and multi-functionali…
Shape and size changes of adherent elastic epithelia
Benjamin Loewe, Francesco Serafin, Suraj Shankar +2
Epithelial tissues play a fundamental role in various morphogenetic events during development and early embryogenesis. Although epithelial monolayers are often modeled as two-dimen…
Topology and ground state degeneracy of tetrahedral smectic vesicles
Francesco Serafin, Mark J. Bowick, Sidney R. Nagel
Chemical design of block copolymers makes it possible to create polymer vesicles with tunable microscopic structure. Here we focus on a model of a vesicle made of smectic liquid-cr…
Shapes and singularities in triatic liquid crystal vesicles
Mark J. Bowick, Oksana V. Manyuhina, Francesco Serafin
Determining the equilibrium configuration and shape of curved two-dimensional films with (generalized) liquid crystalline (LC) order is a difficult infinite dimensional problem of…