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cond-mat.soft2006★ 192 cited
Nematic textures in spherical shells
Vincenzo Vitelli, David R. Nelson
The equilibrium texture of nematic shells is studied as a function of their thickness. For ultrathin shells the ground state has four short 1/2 disclination lines but, as the thick…
cond-mat.soft2006★ 141 cited
Crystallography on Curved Surfaces
Vincenzo Vitelli, Julius B. Lucks, David R. Nelson
We study static and dynamical properties that distinguish two dimensional crystals constrained to lie on a curved substrate from their flat space counterparts. A generic mechanism…