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Shapes and singularities in triatic liquid crystal vesicles
Mark J. Bowick, Oksana V. Manyuhina, Francesco Serafin
Determining the equilibrium configuration and shape of curved two-dimensional films with (generalized) liquid crystalline (LC) order is a difficult infinite dimensional problem of…
Defect driven shapes in nematic droplets: analogies with cell division
Marco Leoni, Oksana V. Manyuhina, Mark J. Bowick +1
Building on the striking similarity between the structure of the spindle during mitosis in living cells and nematic textures in confined liquid crystals, we use a continuum model o…
Thick smectic shells
O. V. Manyuhina, M. J. Bowick
The known ground state of ultrathin smectic films confined to the surface of a sphere is described by four +1/2 defects assembled on a great circle and a director which follows geo…
Viral nematics in confined geometries
O. V. Manyuhina, K. B. Lawlor, M. C. Marchetti +1
Motivated by recent experiments on the rod-like virus bacteriophage fd, confined to circular and annular domains, we present a theoretical study of structural transitions in these…
Forming a cube from a sphere with tetratic order
O. V. Manyuhina, M. J. Bowick
Composed of square particles, the tetratic phase is characterised by a four-fold symmetry with quasi-long-range orientational order but no translational order. We construct the ela…
Elastic instabilities in a layered cerebral cortex: A revised axonal tension model for cortex folding
O. V. Manyuhina, David Mayett, J. M. Schwarz
We model the elasticity of the cerebral cortex as a layered material with bending energy along the layers and elastic energy between them in both planar and polar geometries. The c…