Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are crosslinked polymer networks that combine the
elastic properties of rubber with the anisotropic properties of liquid crystals. Multifunctionality …

▪ Abstract Recent progress in modeling and simulation of the flow of nematic liquid crystals is
presented. The Leslie-Ericksen (LE) theory has been successful in elucidating the flow of …

Pattern formation in physical systems is one of the major research frontiers of mathematics.
A central theme of this book is that many instances of pattern formation can be understood …

We describe a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to simulate liquid crystal hydrodynamics. The
equations of motion are written in terms of a tensor order parameter. This allows both the …

Liquid crystals are a type of soft matter that is intermediate between crystalline solids and
isotropic fluids. The study of liquid crystals has made tremendous progress over the past four …

This Letter investigates the defect structures that arise between two colloidal spheres
immersed in a nematic liquid crystal. Molecular simulations and a dynamic field theory are …

The significant role of hydrogen-bonding (Hsingle bond) interactions in the formation and/or
stabilization of liquid crystalline phases have been recognized in recent years and excellent …

This review presents an integrated theoretical and computational characterization and
analysis of surface pattern formation in chiral and achiral liquid crystal self-assembly and the …

We study the growth of aligned domains in nematic liquid crystals. Results are obtained
solving the Beris-Edwards equations of motion using the lattice Boltzmann approach. Spatial …

We present a lattice Boltzmann algorithm for the hydrodynamics of liquid crystals in the
isotropic and nematic phases. The coupling between the tensor order parameter and the …