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  • Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells [Elektronski vir]
    Mesarec, Luka ...
    The impact of the intrinsic curvature of in-plane orientationally ordered curved flexible nematic molecules attached to closed 3D flexible shells was studied numerically. A Helfrich-Landau-de ... Gennes-type mesoscopic approach was adopted where the flexible shell’s curvature field and in-plane nematic field are coupled and concomitantly determined in the process of free energy minimisation. We demonstrate that this coupling has the potential to generate a rich diversity of qualitatively new shapes of closed 3D nematic shells and the corresponding specific in-plane orientational ordering textures, which strongly depend on the shell’s volume-to-surface area ratio, so far not predicted in mesoscopic-type numerical studies of 3D shapes of closed flexible nematic shells.
    Source: Scientific reports [Elektronski vir]. - ISSN 2045-2322 (13, article number 10663, 2023, str. 1-11)
    Type of material - e-article ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2023
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 157604867

    Link(s):

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37664-2
    Digital Library of the University of Maribor – DLUM
    Repository of the University of Ljubljana – RUL

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