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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.

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@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}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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