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The Foam Analogy: From Phases to Elasticity
W. Kung, P. Ziherl, R. D. Kamien
By mapping the interactions of colloidal particles onto the problem of minimizing areas, the physics of foams can be used to understand the phase diagrams of both charged and fuzzy…
Smectic blue phases: layered systems with high intrinsic curvature
B. A. DiDonna, Randall D. Kamien
We report on a construction for smectic blue phases, which have quasi-long range smectic translational order as well as three dimensional crystalline order. Our proposed structures…
A Geometric Theory of Diblock Copolymer Phases
G. M. Grason, B. A. DiDonna, R. D. Kamien
We analyze the energetics of sphere-like micellar phases in diblock copolymers in terms of well-studied, geometric quantities for their lattices. We argue that the A15 lattice with…
Topology from the Bottom Up
Randall D. Kamien
Perspective on cond-mat/0303289