3 papers
cond-mat.soft2022
Emergence of Biaxiality in Nematic Liquid Crystals with Magnetic Inclusions: Some Theoretical Insights
Aditya Vats, Sanjay Puri, Varsha Banerjee
The biaxial phase in nematic liquid crystals has been elusive for several decades after its prediction in the 1970s. A recent experimental breakthrough was achieved by Liu et al. […
cond-mat.stat-mech2020
Domain Growth in Ferronematics: Slaved Coarsening, Emergent Morphologies and Growth Laws
Aditya Vats, Varsha Banerjee, Sanjay Puri
Ferronematics (FNs) are suspensions of magnetic nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals (NLCs). They have attracted much experimental attention, and are of great interest both sci…
cond-mat.stat-mech2019
Slaved Coarsening in Ferronematics
Aditya Vats, Varsha Banerjee, Sanjay Puri
We focus on understanding the influence of the two-component coupling in ferronematics, a colloidal suspension of magnetic nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals. Using coarse-gr…