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cond-mat.soft2012★ 36 cited
Micro-Bullet Assembly: Interactions of Oriented Dipoles in Confined Nematic Liquid Crystal
Mohamed Amine Gharbi, Marcello Cavallaro, Gaoxiang Wu +4
Microbullet particles, cylinders with one blunt and one spherical end, offer a novel platform to study the effects of anisotropy and curvature on colloidal assembly in complex flui…
cond-mat.soft2012★ 15 cited
Breaking the Rules for Topological Defects: Smectic Order on Conical Substrates
Ricardo A. Mosna, Daniel A. Beller, Randall D. Kamien
Ordered phases on curved substrates experience a complex interplay of ordering and intrinsic curvature, commonly producing frustration and singularities. This is an especially impo…