Degenerate conic anchoring and colloidal elastic dipole-hexadecapole transformations
oleh: Ye Zhou, Bohdan Senyuk, Rui Zhang, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Juan J. de Pablo
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2019-03-01 |
Deskripsi
The recently discovered elastic hexadecapole has been thought to result from a conic anchoring condition. In order to understand it at a fundamental level, the authors introduce a model for this anchoring in the context of a Landau-de Gennes free energy functional.