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cond-mat.soft2017★ 9 cited
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…
cond-mat.soft2017
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…