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The symmetries of octupolar tensors
Giuseppe Gaeta, Epifanio G. Virga
Octupolar tensors are third order, completely symmetric and traceless tensors. Whereas in 2D an octupolar tensor has the same symmetries as an equilateral triangle and can ultimate…
Lily-like twist distribution in toroidal nematics
Andrea Pedrini, Marco Piastra, Epifanio G. Virga
Toroidal nematics are droplets of nematic liquid crystals in the form of a circular torus. When the nematic director is subject to planar degenerate boundary conditions, the bend-o…
Contributions of Repulsive and Attractive Interactions to Nematic Order
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Jamie M. Taylor, Epifanio G. Virga +1
Both repulsive and attractive molecular interactions can be used to explain the onset of nematic order. The object of this paper is to combine these two nematogenic molecular inter…
Instability of toroidal nematics
Andrea Pedrini, Epifanio G. Virga
Toroidal nematics are nematic liquid crystals confined within a circular torus and subject to planar degenerate anchoring on the boundary of the torus. They may be droplets floatin…
Lifting map for ordered surfaces
Leonid V. Mirantsev, André M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
When a material surface is functionalized so as to acquire some type of order, functionalization of which soft condensed matter systems have recently provided many interesting exam…