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Phase Behaviour of X-Shaped Liquid Crystalline Molecules
Dan Wei, Zhijuan He, Yunqing Huang +2
X-shaped liquid crystalline molecules (XLCMs) are obtained by tethering two flexible end A-blocks and two flexible side B-blocks to a rigid backbone (R). A rich array of ordered st…
Stability of diverse dodecagonal quasicrystals in T-shaped liquid crystalline molecules
Xin Wang, An-Chang Shi, Pingwen Zhang +1
Quasicrystals are intriguing ordered structures characterized by the lack of translational symmetry and the existence of rotational symmetry. The tiling of different geometric unit…
Phase behavior of symmetric diblock copolymers under 3D soft confinement
Zhijuan He, Jin Huang, Kai Jiang +1
The phase behavior of symmetric diblock copolymers under three-dimensional (3D) soft confinement is investigated using the self-consistent field theory. The soft confinement is rea…
Nucleation and phase transition of decagonal quasicrystals
Tiejun Zhou, Lei Zhang, Pingwen Zhang +2
In this work, we study the nucleation of quasicrystals from liquid or periodic crystals by developing an efficient order-order phase transition algorithm, namely the nullspace-pres…