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Designing slower glasses by manipulating their local structure
Susana Marín Aguilar, Henricus H. Wensink, Giuseppe Foffi +1
Glasses remain an elusive and poorly understood state of matter. For example, it is not clear how we can design an efficient macroscopic glass former by tuning the properties of it…
Frank elasticity of composite colloidal nematics with anti-nematic order
H. H. Wensink
Mixing colloid shapes with distinctly different anisotropy generates composite nematics in which the order of the individual components can be fundamentally different. In colloidal…
Long-time anomalous swimmer diffusion in smectic liquid crystals
Claudia Ferreiro-Córdova, John Toner, Hartmut Löwen +1
The dynamics of self-locomotion of active particles in aligned or liquid crystalline fluids strongly deviates from that in simple isotropic media. We explore the long-time dynamics…
Depletion-driven four-phase coexistences in discotic systems
Álvaro González García, Remco Tuinier, Jasper V. Maring +3
Free volume theory (FVT) is a versatile and tractable framework to predict the phase behaviour of mixtures of platelets and non-adsorbing polymer chains in a common solvent. Within…
Elastic moduli of a smectic membrane: a rod-level scaling analysis
H. H. Wensink, L. Morales Anda
Chiral rodlike colloids exposed to strong depletion attraction may self-assemble into chiral membranes whose twisted director field differs from that of a 3D bulk chiral nematic. W…