3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Morphogenesis driven by nematic defects in active biological networks
Silvia Paparini, Giulio G. Giusteri, L. Angela Mihai
Cellular morphogenesis, the process by which biological tissues acquire shape and structure, remains a fundamental challenge in understanding pattern formation and the coordinated…
cond-mat.soft2025
Shape instabilities driven by topological defects in nematic polymer networks
Silvia Paparini, Giulio G. Giusteri, L. Angela Mihai
Liquid crystalline networks (LCNs) are stimuli-responsive materials formed from polymeric chains cross-linked with rod-like mesogenic segments, which, in the nematic phase, align a…
math.AP2024
A shape optimization problem for nematic and cholesteric liquid crystal drops
Alessandro Giacomini, Silvia Paparini
We generalize the shape optimization problem for the existence of stable equilibrium configurations of nematic and cholesteric liquid crystal drops surrounded by an isotropic solut…