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Active boundary layers
Jérôme Hardoüin, Claire Doré, Justine Laurent +3
The role of boundary layers in conventional liquid crystals is commonly subsumed in their anchoring on confining walls. In the classical view, anchoring enslaves the orientational…
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Structural transformations in tetravalent nematic shells induced by a magnetic field
Yoko Ishii, Ye Zhou, Kunyun He +4
The role of applied fields on the structure of liquid crystals confined to shell geometries has been studied in past theoretical work, providing strategies to produce liquid crysta…