Phase transitions in liquid crystals

S Singh - Physics Reports, 2000‏ - Elsevier
Mesogenic materials exhibit a multitude of transitions involving new phases. Studies of
these phases are of importance in a wide range of scientific fields and as such have …

Hard-body models of bulk liquid crystals

L Mederos, E Velasco… - Journal of Physics …, 2014‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Hard models for particle interactions have played a crucial role in the understanding of the
structure of condensed matter. In particular, they help to explain the formation of oriented …

[کتاب][B] Liquid crystals: fundamentals

S Singh - 2002‏ - books.google.com
Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

Hard convex body fluids

MP Allen, GT Evans, D Frenkel… - Advances in chemical …, 1993‏ - Wiley Online Library
The basis of our theoretical understanding of statistical mechanics of dilute gases dates
back to the nineteenth century. The atomistic description of crystalline solids originated in …

Phase behavior of two-dimensional hard rod fluids

MA Bates, D Frenkel - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2000‏ - pubs.aip.org
Monte Carlo simulations are used to study two-dimensional hard rod fluids consisting of
spherocylinders confined to lie in a plane. The phase behavior is mapped out as a function …

Glass transitions in quasi-two-dimensional suspensions of colloidal ellipsoids

Z Zheng, F Wang, Y Han - Physical review letters, 2011‏ - APS
We observed a two-step glass transition in monolayers of colloidal ellipsoids by video
microscopy. The glass transition in the rotational degree of freedom was at a lower density …

Tetratic order in the phase behavior of a hard-rectangle system

A Donev, J Burton, FH Stillinger, S Torquato - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2006‏ - APS
Previous Monte Carlo investigations by Wojciechowski have found two unusual phases in
two-dimensional systems of anisotropic hard particles: a tetratic phase of fourfold symmetry …

Jamming in systems composed of frictionless ellipse-shaped particles

M Mailman, CF Schreck, CS O'Hern, B Chakraborty - Physical review letters, 2009‏ - APS
We study numerically frictionless ellipse packings versus the aspect ratio α, and find that the
jamming transition is fundamentally different from that for spherical particles. The normal …

Molecular-scale substrate anisotropy, crowding and division drive collective behaviours in cell monolayers

Y Luo, M Gu, M Park, X Fang… - Journal of the …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ability of cells to reorganize in response to external stimuli is important in areas ranging
from morphogenesis to tissue engineering. While nematic order is common in biological …

Design rules for 2D field mediated assembly of different shaped colloids into diverse microstructures

RS Hendley, L Zhang, MA Bevan - Soft Matter, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Assembling different shaped particles into ordered microstructures is an open challenge in
creating multifunctional particle-based materials and devices. Here, we report the two …