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Shape enantiomerism in semi-rigid polymer liquid crystals
S. Biswas, W. S. Fall, H. H. Wensink
Weakly flexible, directed polymers can adopt a potentially infinite variety of conformations, some of them chiral. We develop a second-virial theory for semi-rigid polymers embedde…
Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Polydisperse Achiral Near-Rigid Nematogens
William S. Fall, Henricus H. Wensink
Understanding chirality transfer from the molecular to the macroscopic scale poses a significant challenge in soft and biological condensed matter physics. Many nanorods of biologi…
Freezing in flat monolayers of soft spherocylinders
Jaydeep Mandal, Henricus H. Wensink, Prabal K. Maiti
Lamellar or smectic phases often have an intricate intralamellar structure that remains scarcely understood from a microscopic viewpoint. In this work, we use molecular dynamics si…
Complex Smectic Phases in Polymer Grafted Shape-Uniform Cellulose Nano-Crystals
William S. Fall, Henricus H. Wensink
The effect of short chain grafting on the liquid crystalline (LC) ordering of nano-crystals is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained grafted nano-ro…
Elastic response of colloidal smectics: insights from microscopic theory
H. H. Wensink, E. Grelet
Elongated colloidal rods at sufficient packing conditions are known to form stable lamellar or smectic phases. Using a simplified volume-exclusion model, we propose a generic equat…
Unavoidable emergent biaxiality in chiral molecular-colloidal hybrid liquid crystals
Jin-Sheng Wu, Marina Torres Lazaro, Souvik Ghosh +3
Chiral nematic or cholesteric liquid crystals (LCs) are mesophases with long-ranged orientational order featuring a quasi-layered periodicity imparted by a helical configuration bu…