Abstract: After some general introduction on unusual minima and shape problems in soft matter I will treat the specific case of liquid crystalline vesicles. The shape of liquid-crystalline vesicles, molecularly thin membrane sacs enclosing a finite volume, is determined by the competition between liquid-crystalline deformations on a surface to be determined and the bending energy of the surface in the ambient bulk. We analyze this problem in two limits: stiff (high bending rigidity compared to Frank modulus) and floppy (low bending energy compared to Frank modulus). The solution in the floppy limit is quite remarkable: it is the surface of a regular tetrahedron with topological defects at the vertices. Thus floppy liquid crystalline vesicles, which have no translational order, are sharp faceted structures more commonly found in hard crystalline materials.
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On Shape and Order in Soft Matter
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Speaker:
Mark Bowick
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Syracuse University, USA
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 14:00 to 15:00
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A-004
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