Colloidal liquid crystals in rectangular confinement: theory and experiment.
We theoretically and experimentally study nematic liquid crystal equilibria within shallow rectangular wells. We model the wells within a two-dimensional Oseen-Frank framework, with strong tangent anchoring, and obtain explicit analytical expressions for the director fields and energies of the '...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Royal Society of Chemistry
2014
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