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Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells

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...

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Autores principales: Mesarec, Luka, Góźdź, Wojciech, Kralj-Iglič, Veronika, Kralj, Samo, Iglič, Aleš
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10314910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37393271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37664-2
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author Mesarec, Luka
Góźdź, Wojciech
Kralj-Iglič, Veronika
Kralj, Samo
Iglič, Aleš
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-103149102023-07-03 Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells Mesarec, Luka Góźdź, Wojciech Kralj-Iglič, Veronika Kralj, Samo Iglič, Aleš Sci Rep Article 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10314910/ /pubmed/37393271 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37664-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells
title Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells
title_full Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells
title_fullStr Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells
title_full_unstemmed Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells
title_short Coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells
title_sort coupling of nematic in-plane orientational ordering and equilibrium shapes of closed flexible nematic shells
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10314910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37393271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37664-2
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