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Micromechanical statistical model links induced nematic order to mechanical response in fiber networks
Ehud Haimov, Yoni Koren, Ayelet Lesman +2
Contractile cells and external loads reorganize the fibrous extracellular matrix, aligning and compacting fibers over distances far exceeding a cell's size, strongly affecting biop…
Applications of the Peach-Koehler Force in Liquid Crystals
Cheng Long, Jonathan V. Selinger
In solids, external stress induces the Peach-Koehler force, which drives dislocations to move. Similarly, in liquid crystals, an external angular stress creates an analogous force,…
Frank-Read Mechanism in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Cheng Long, Matthew J. Deutsch, Joseph Angelo +4
In a crystalline solid under mechanical stress, a Frank-Read source is a pinned dislocation segment that repeatedly bows and detaches, generating concentric dislocation loops. We d…
Explicit Demonstration of Geometric Frustration in Chiral Liquid Crystals
Cheng Long, Jonathan V. Selinger
Many solid materials and liquid crystals exhibit geometric frustration, meaning that they have an ideal local structure that cannot fill up space. For that reason, the global phase…
Violation of Ericksen inequalities in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Cheng Long, Jonathan V. Selinger
By analyzing elastic theory for nematic liquid crystals, we distinguish three regimes of elastic constants. In one regime, the Ericksen inequalities are satisfied, and the ground s…
Modulated phases of nematic liquid crystals induced by tetrahedral order
Michely P. Rosseto, Jonathan V. Selinger
Recent theoretical research has developed a general framework to understand director deformations and modulated phases in nematic liquid crystals. In this framework, there are four…