The activated morphology of grain boundaries in nematic solid sheets

Carl D. Modes; Mark Warner

doi:10.1117/12.916788

10 February 2012 The activated morphology of grain boundaries in nematic solid sheets

Carl D. Modes, Mark Warner

Proceedings Volume 8279, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies VII; 82790Q (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.916788
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We review the current understanding of stress-free, defect-driven deformations in thin sheets of nematic solids, from simple, isolated cone-forming +1 disclination defects to more complicated textures constructed from simple building-block domains. Further, by building from these textures we may investigate the effect that grain boundaries of various types have on the material deformation, leading to faceted tubes in some cases and lines of Gaussian curvature, instead of points, in others.

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Carl D. Modes and Mark Warner "The activated morphology of grain boundaries in nematic solid sheets", Proc. SPIE 8279, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies VII, 82790Q (10 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.916788

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