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cond-mat.soft2016★ 8 cited
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…
cond-mat.soft2016★ 26 cited
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…