Liquid crystals (LCs) are synthetic and biological viscoelastic anisotropic soft matter
materials that have a combination of fluidity of liquids and anisotropy of solids and find use …

Hypothesis Liquid-crystalline phase separation by nucleation and growth (NG) is a crucial
step in the formation of collagen-based biomaterials. However, the fundamental …

This review presents theory and simulation of liquid crystal phase ordering in biological
fibrous materials, solutions, and composites in the presence of elastic fields, second phase …

The collagen triple helix is a ubiquitous biomacromolecule used in acidic aqueous solutions
as precursor in the fabrication of artificial compact bone and cornea and in tissue …

Shape is a crucial geometric property of surfaces, interfaces, and membranes in biology,
colloidal and interface science, and many areas of physics. This paper presents theory …

Utilizing density-of-states simulations, we perform a full mapping of the phase behavior and
elastic responses of binary liquid crystalline mixtures represented by the multicomponent …

Phase ordering over solid substrates is a ubiquitous and important soft material
transformation process whose description incorporates wetting, anchoring and phase …

An extension to a high-order model for the direct isotropic/smectic-A liquid-crystalline phase
transition was derived to take into account thermal effects including anisotropic thermal …

A Landau-de Gennes model that integrates the nematic quadrupolar tensor order parameter
and complex smectic-A order parameters is used to simulate the two-dimensional growth of …

A comprehensive modeling and simulation study of the first-order isotropic/smectic-A
transition is presented and applied to phase diagram computation and two-dimensional …