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Merons Mediate Re-Ordering of Curved Rods Under Shear Flow
Nicholas W. Hackney, Joel T. Clemmer, Thomas O'Connor +1
Bent-core liquid crystals are a canonical example of a soft matter system whose behavior is controlled by a local preference for order that cannot be universally achieved. This geo…
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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…
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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…