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cond-mat.soft2018
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…
cond-mat.soft2015★ 6 cited
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…