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Alignment induced re-configurable walls for patterning and assembly of liquid crystal skyrmions
Ayhan Duzgun, Avadh Saxena, Jonathan V. Selinger
Skyrmions have attracted rapidly growing interest due to their topological properties and unique aspects for potential novel applications such as data storage and soft robotics. Th…
Comparing skyrmions and merons in chiral liquid crystals and magnets
Ayhan Duzgun, Jonathan V. Selinger, Avadh Saxena
When chiral liquid crystals or magnets are subjected to applied fields or other anisotropic environments, the competition between favored twist and anisotropy leads to the formatio…
Effect of Intra-molecular Disorder and Inter-molecular Electronic Interactions on the Electronic Structure of Poly-p-Phenylene Vinylene (PPV)
Ping Yang, Enrique R. Batista, Sergei Tretiak +3
We investigate the role of intra-molecular conformational disorder and inter-molecular electronic interactions on the electronic structure of disorder clusters of poly-p-phenylene…
Role of solvent for globular proteins in solution
A. Shiryayev, D. L. Pagan, J. D. Gunton +3
The properties of the solvent affect the behavior of the solution. We propose a model that accounts for the contribution of the solvent free energy to the free energy of globular p…
Spherical Vesicles Distorted by a Grafted Latex Bead: An Exact Solution
Jerome Benoit, Avadh Saxena
We present an exact solution to the problem of the global shape description of a spherical vesicle distorted by a grafted latex bead. This solution is derived by treating the nonli…
Viscoelastic Properties of Dynamically Asymmetric Binary Fluids Under Shear Flow
Vinay Dwivedi, Rajeev Ahluwalia, Turab Lookman +1
We study theoretically the viscoelastic properties of sheared binary fluids that have strong dynamical asymmetry between the two components. The dynamical asymmetry arises due to a…
Self-Dual Bending Theory for Vesicles
Jerome Benoit, Elizabeth von Hauff, Avadh Saxena
We present a self-dual bending theory that may enable a better understanding of highly nonlinear global behavior observed in biological vesicles. Adopting this topological approach…
Glassy behavior in systems with Kac-type step-function interaction
Kok-Kiong Loh, Kyozi Kawasaki, Alan R. Bishop +4
We study a system with a weak, long-range repulsive Kac-type step-function interaction within the framework of a replicated effective -theory. The occurrence of extensive conf…
Phase transition induced hydrodynamic instability and Langmuir-Blodgett Deposition
Kok-Kiong Loh, Avadh Saxena, Turab Lookman +1
We propose a model to understand periodic oscillations relevant to the origin of mesoscopic channels formed during a Langmuir-Blodgett deposition observed in recent experiments \{M…
Bogomol'nyi Decomposition for Vesicles of Arbitrary Genus
Jerome Benoit, Avadh Saxena, Turab Lookman
We apply the Bogomol'nyi technique, which is usually invoked in the study of solitons or models with topological invariants, to the case of elastic energy of vesicles. We show that…