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A connection between Living Liquid Crystals and electrokinetic phenomena in nematic fluids
Christopher Conklin, Jorge Vinals, Oriol T. Valls
We develop a formal analogy between configurational stresses in two distinct physical systems, and study the flows that they induce when the configurations of interest include topo…
Q-tensor model for electrokinetics in nematic liquid crystals
Oleh M. Tovkach, Christopher Conklin, M. Carme Calderer +4
We use a variational principle to derive a mathematical model for a nematic electrolyte in which the liquid crystalline component is described in terms of a second-rank order tenso…
Electrokinetic flows in liquid crystal thin films with fixed anchoring
Christopher Conklin, Jorge Vinals
We study ionic and mass transport in a liquid crystalline fluid film in its nematic phase under an applied electrostatic field. Both analytic and numerical solutions are given for…
Liquid Crystals with Patterned Molecular Orientation as an Electrolytic Active Medium
Chenhui Peng, Yubing Guo, Christopher Conklin +4
Transport of fluids and particles at the microscale is an important theme both in fundamental and applied science. One of the most successful approaches is to use an electric field…