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cond-mat.soft2018
Shear-induced first-order transition in polar liquid crystals
Tomer Markovich, Elsen Tjhung, Michael E. Cates
The hydrodynamic theory of polar liquid crystals is widely used to describe biological active fluids as well as passive molecular materials. Depending on the `shear-alignment param…
cond-mat.soft2018
Banana and pizza-slice-shaped mesogens give a new constrained ferromagnet universality class
Xiuqi Ma, Elsen Tjhung
It has been known that at high density, the local orientation of banana-shaped molecules shows a spontaneously bent state, giving rise to interesting liquid-crystalline phases such…
cond-mat.soft2018
Theories of Binary Fluid Mixtures: From Phase-Separation Kinetics to Active Emulsions
Michael E. Cates, Elsen Tjhung
Binary fluid mixtures are examples of complex fluids whose microstructure and flow are strongly coupled. For pairs of simple fluids, the microstructure consists of droplets or bico…