Colloidal Inclusions in Liquid Crystals
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-24 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
We outline the necessary background to understand the interaction of colloids in liquid crystals through boundary conditions and topology.
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@article{arxiv.1506.06815,
title = {Colloidal Inclusions in Liquid Crystals},
author = {Randall D. Kamien},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06815},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages. Lecture notes for Enrico Fermi Summer School on Soft Matter Assembly. Introductory notes. Other lectures follow http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203127 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1169