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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.Mesh:
Year: 2015 PMID: 26164823 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2015-15075-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur Phys J E Soft Matter ISSN: 1292-8941 Impact factor: 1.890