Nematic textures in spherical shells
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Nematic textures in spherical shells.
The equilibrium texture of nematic shells is studied as a function of their thickness. For ultrathin shells the ground state has four short 1/2 disclination lines but, as the thickness of the film increases, a three-dimensional escaped configuration composed of two pairs of half-hedgehogs becomes energetically favorable. We derive an exact solution for the nematic ground state in the one Frank ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.74.021711