Equilibrium of nematic vesicles

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/44/445207MaRDI QIDQ3060109zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gaetano Napoli, L. Vergori

Publication date 1 December 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0641

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationmembranesnematic microstructure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: We propose a continuum model to describe the molecular alignment in thin nematic shells. By contrast with previous accounts, the two-dimensional free energy, aimed at describing the physics of thin films of nematics deposited on curved substrates, is not postulated but it is deduced from the conventional three-dimensional theories of nematic liquid crystals. Both the director and the order-tensor theories are taken into account. The so-obtained surface energies exhibit extra terms compared to earlier models. These terms reflect the coupling of the geometry of the shell with the nematic order parameters. As expected, the shape of the shell plays a key role in the equilibrium configurations of nematics coating it.

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