3 papers
cond-mat.soft2024
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…
math.NA2024
High-accurate and efficient numerical algorithms for the self-consistent field theory of liquid-crystalline polymers
Zhijuan He, Kai Jiang, Liwei Tan +1
Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is one of the most widely-used framework in studying the equilibrium phase behaviors of inhomogenous polymers. For liquid crystalline polymeric…
cond-mat.soft2023
Theory of polygonal phases self-assembled from T-shaped liquid crystalline molecules
Zhijuan He, Xin Wang, Pingwen Zhang +2
Extensive experimental studies have shown that numerous ordered phases can be formed via the self-assembly of T-shaped liquid crystalline molecules (TLCMs) composed of a rigid back…