Degenerate conic anchoring and colloidal elastic dipole-hexadecapole transformations

The recently discovered elastic hexadecapole has been thought to result from a conic anchoring condition. In order to understand it at a fundamental level, the authors introduce a model for this anchoring in the context of a Landau-de Gennes free energy functional.

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Main Authors: Ye Zhou, Bohdan Senyuk, Rui Zhang, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Juan J. de Pablo
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7b8a964f4f054588943ed76abd5252c0
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