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Helical Tubes in Crowded Environments
Yehuda Snir, Randall D. Kamien
When placed in a crowded environment, a semi-flexible tube is forced to fold so as to make a more compact shape. One compact shape that often arises in nature is the tight helix, e…
Soft Spheres Make More Mesophases
Matthew A. Glaser, Gregory M. Grason, Randall D. Kamien +3
This paper has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of arXiv:cond-mat/0609570.
Triply-Periodic Smectics
Christian D. Santangelo, Randall D. Kamien
Twist-grain-boundary phases in smectics are the geometrical analogs of the Abrikosov flux lattice in superconductors. At large twist angles, the nonlinear elasticity is important i…
Soft Spheres Make More Mesophases
Matthew A. Glaser, Gregory M. Grason, Randall D. Kamien +3
We use both mean-field methods and numerical simulation to study the phase diagram of classical particles interacting with a hard-core and repulsive, soft shoulder. Despite the pur…
Bubble kinetics in a steady-state column of aqueous foam
K. Feitosa, Olivia L. Halt, Randall D. Kamien +1
We measure the liquid content, the bubble speeds, and the distribution of bubble sizes, in a vertical column of aqueous foam maintained in steady-state by continuous bubbling of ga…
Smectic Liquid Crystals: Materials with One-Dimensional, Periodic Order
Randall D. Kamien, Christian D. Santangelo
Smectic liquid crystals are materials formed by stacking deformable, fluid layers. Though smectics prefer to have flat, uniformly-spaced layers, boundary conditions can impose curv…