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cond-mat.soft2026

Twist-driven helical flattening in nematic elastomer cylinders

Alexia Chatzitheodorou, Christian D. Santangelo

The paper develops an effective two-dimensional model for nematic elastomer cylinders with a through‑thickness twisted director, revealing a strong coupling between twist and curva…