Topological transformations of a nematic drop

Autor: Koizumi, Runa, Golovaty, Dmitry, Alqarni, Ali, Li, Bing-Xiang, Sternberg, Peter J., Lavrentovich, Oleg D.

Publikováno v: Science Advances 9, eadf3385 (2023)

Morphogenesis of living systems involves topological shape transformations which are highly unusual in the inanimate world. Here we demonstrate that a droplet of a nematic liquid crystal changes its equilibrium shape from a simply-connected tactoid,

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00632

Singularities in PDE and the calculus of variations / Stanley Alama, Lia Bronsard, Peter J. Sternberg, editors. [electronic resource]

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Topological transformations of a nematic drop.

Autor: Koizumi R; Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA., Golovaty D; Department of Mathematics, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4002, USA., Alqarni A; Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA., Li BX; Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.; College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China., Sternberg PJ; Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA., Lavrentovich OD; Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.; Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.

Publikováno v: Science advances [Sci Adv] 2023 Jul 07; Vol. 9 (27), pp. eadf3385. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 07.