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cond-mat.stat-mech2021
Cavity volume and free energy in many-body systems
Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga +2
Within this work we derive and analyse an expression for the free energy of a single-species system in the thermodynamic limit in terms of a generalised cavity volume, that is exac…
cond-mat.soft2021
Shape Bistability in Squeezed Chromonic Droplets
Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga
We study droplets of chromonic liquid crystals squeezed between parallel plates inducing degenerate tangential anchoring on the nematic director. In the coexistence regime, where d…
cond-mat.soft2021
Ridge approximation for thin nematic polymer networks
Andrea Pedrini, Epifanio G. Virga
Nematic polymer networks (NPNs) are nematic elastomers within which the nematic director is enslaved to the elastic deformation. The elastic free energy of a NPN sheet of thickness…