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Anomalous Diffusion and Stress Relaxation in Surfactant Micelles
Subas Dhakal, Radhakrishna Sureshkumar
We present the first molecular dynamics study to probe the mechanisms of anomalous diffusion in cationic surfactant micelles in the presence of explicit salt and solvent-mediated i…
Topology, Length Scales and Energetics of Surfactant Micelles
Subas Dhakal, Radhakrishna Sureshkumar
We investigate the morphology and energetics of a self-associating model cationic surfactant in water using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. We develop an algorithm t…
Statistical mechanics of bend flexoelectricity and the twist-bend phase in bent-core liquid crystals
Shaikh M. Shamid, Subas Dhakal, Jonathan V. Selinger
We develop a Landau theory for bend flexoelectricity in liquid crystals of bent-core molecules. In the nematic phase of the model, the bend flexoelectric coefficient increases as w…
Chirality and Biaxiality in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Subas Dhakal, Jonathan V. Selinger
We investigate the statistical mechanics of chirality and biaxiality in liquid crystals through a variety of theoretical approaches, including Monte Carlo simulations, lattice mean…
Statistical Mechanics of Splay Flexoelectricity in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Subas Dhakal, Jonathan V. Selinger
We develop a lattice model for the splay flexoelectric effect in nematic liquid crystals. In this model, each lattice site has a spin representing the local molecular orientation,…