Reshaping nemato-elastic sheets
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-04-15 v1
Abstract
We consider three-dimensional reshaping of thin nemato-elastic sheets containing half-charged defects upon nematic-isotropic transition. Gaussian curvature, that can be evaluated analytically when the nematic texture is known, differs from zero in the entire domain and has a dipole or hexapole singularity, respectively, at defects of positive or negative sign. The latter kind of defects appears in not simply connected domains. Three-dimensional shapes dependent on boundary anchoring are obtained with the help of finite element computations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1504.03611,
title = {Reshaping nemato-elastic sheets},
author = {A. P. Zakharov and L. M. Pismen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03611},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures