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What a twist cell experiment tells about a quartic twist theory for chromonics
Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga
The elastic theory of chromonic liquid crystals is not completely established. We know, for example, that for anomalously low twist constants (needed for chromonics) the classical…
cond-mat.soft2023
A confined rod: mean field theory for hard rod-like particles
Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga +2
In this paper, we model the configurations of a system of hard rods by viewing each rod in a cell formed by its neighbors. By minimizing the free energy in the model and performing…
cond-mat.soft2023
Pure measure of bending for soft plates
Epifanio G. Virga
This paper, originally motivated by a question raised by Wood and Hanna [Soft Matter, 15, 2411 (2019)], shows that pure measures of bending for soft plates can be defined by introd…