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Shapes and singularities in triatic liquid crystal vesicles
Mark J. Bowick, Oksana V. Manyuhina, Francesco Serafin
Determining the equilibrium configuration and shape of curved two-dimensional films with (generalized) liquid crystalline (LC) order is a difficult infinite dimensional problem of…
Defect driven shapes in nematic droplets: analogies with cell division
Marco Leoni, Oksana V. Manyuhina, Mark J. Bowick +1
Building on the striking similarity between the structure of the spindle during mitosis in living cells and nematic textures in confined liquid crystals, we use a continuum model o…
Non-Hookean statistical mechanics of clamped graphene ribbons
Mark J. Bowick, Andrej Kosmrlj, David R. Nelson +1
Thermally fluctuating sheets and ribbons provide an intriguing forum in which to investigate strong violations of Hooke's Law: large distance elastic parameters are in fact not con…