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Equatorial deformation of homogeneous spherical fluid vesicles by a rigid ring
Pablo Vázquez-Montejo, Bojan Božič, Jemal Guven
We examine the deformation of homogeneous spherical fluid vesicles along their equator by a circular rigid ring. We consider deformations preserving the axial and equatorial mirror…
Flexible paramagnetic membranes in fast precessing fields
Pablo Vázquez-Montejo, Mónica Olvera de la Cruz
Elastic membranes composed of paramagnetic beads offer the possibility of assembling versatile actuators operated autonomously by external magnetic fields. Here we develop a theore…
Paramagnetic filaments in a fast precessing field: Planar versus helical conformations
Pablo Vázquez-Montejo, Joshua M. Dempster, Mónica Olvera de la Cruz
We examine analytically equilibrium conformations of elastic chains of paramagnetic beads in the presence of a precessing magnetic field. Conformations of these filaments are deter…
Environmental bias and elastic curves on surfaces
Jemal Guven, Dulce María Valencia, Pablo Vázquez-Montejo
The behavior of an elastic curve bound to a surface will reflect the geometry of its environment. This may occur in an obvious way: the curve may deform freely along directions tan…
Constrained metric variations and emergent equilibrium surfaces
Jemal Guven, Pablo Vázquez-Montejo
Any surface is completely characterized by a metric and a symmetric tensor satisfying the Gauss-Codazzi-Mainardi equations (GCM), which identifies the latter as its curvature. We d…
Conical instabilities on paper
Jemal Guven, Martin Michael Mueller, Pablo Vázquez-Montejo
The stability of the fundamental defects of an unstretchable flat sheet is examined. This involves expanding the bending energy to second order in deformations about the defect. Th…