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Onsager's missing steps retraced
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng
Onsager's paper on phase transition and phase coexistence in anisotropic colloidal systems is a landmark in the theory of lyotropic liquid crystals. However, an uncompromising scru…
Bistable curvature potential at hyperbolic points of nematic shells
Andre M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
Nematic shells are colloidal particles coated with nematic liquid crystal molecules which may freely glide and rotate on the colloid's surface while keeping their long axis on the…
Interfacial and morphological features of a twist-bend nematic drop
Kanakapura S. Krishnamurthy, Pramoda Kumar, Nani B. Palakurthy +2
In this experimental and theoretical study, we examine the equilibrium shapes of quasitwo-dimensional twist-bend nematic (Ntb) drops formed within a planarly aligned nematic layer…
Octupolar order in two dimensions
Epifanio G. Virga
Octupolar order is described in two space dimensions in terms of the maxima (and conjugated minima) of the probability density associated with a third-rank, fully symmetric and tra…
Explicit excluded volume of cylindrically symmetric convex bodies
Marco Piastra, Epifanio G. Virga
We represent explicitly the excluded volume Ve{B1,B2} of two generic cylindrically symmetric, convex rigid bodies, B1 and B2, in terms of a family of shape functionals evaluated se…