3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Shear and crystallization in deformable granular packings: why don't auxetics order?
Joel T. Clemmer, Nicholas W. Hackney, Gary S. Grest
Shear of three-dimensional, highly compressed granular packings is simulated using a bonded particle approach that explicitly resolves elastic deformation. Varying Poisson's ratio…
cond-mat.soft2026
Shape Elasticity in Colloidal Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
Nicholas W. Hackney, Joel T. Clemmer, Gary S. Grest
Curved particles have been shown to stabilize a range of states with unique order in dense suspensions of colloidal bent core liquid crystals. The shape of the colloidal rods encou…
cond-mat.soft2025
Geometrically Frustrated Assembly at Finite Temperature: Phase Transitions from Self-Limiting to Bulk States
Nicholas Hackney, Gregory Grason
Geometric frustration is recognized to generate complex morphologies in self-assembling particulate and molecular systems. In bulk states, frustrated drives structured arrays of to…