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Stable nematic droplets with handles
E. Pairam, J. Vallamkondu, V. Koning +5
We stabilize nematic droplets with handles against surface-tension-driven instabilities using a yield-stress material as outer fluid and study the complex nematic textures and defe…
cond-mat.soft2012
Bivalent defect configurations in inhomogeneous nematic shells
V. Koning, T. Lopez-Leon, A. Fernandez-Nieves +1
We present a theoretical study of the director fields and energetics of nematic liquid crystal shells with two pairs of surface defects. The pairs of defects can undergo abrupt tra…