The measurement of the saddle-splay surface elastic constant K 24 in a nematic liquid
crystal is reported based on two independent deuterium nuclear-magnetic-resonance (2 H-NMR) …

Abstract Analysis of the Frank free energy for nematics confined to cylindrical regions indicates
that the director pattern is dependent on the surface elastic constant K 24 if there is weak …

Possible phases in a nematic liquid crystal confined to a spherical submicrometer droplet
embedded in a solid polymer are analyzed in terms of a Landau–de Gennes theory. For a …

Deuterium NMR of nematic droplets in a polymer matrix reveals the effect of confinement on
molecular orientational ordering near the nematic-isotropic (N− I) phase transition. For large …

We consider the plasma membrane that contains a cholesterol molar fraction of 0.4 and ask
how that cholesterol is distributed between the two leaves. Because of the rapid flip-flop of …

Dynamic light scattering from orientational order fluctuations in a liquid crystalline tetrapode
reveals successive, weakly first-order isotropic to uniaxial and uniaxial to biaxial nematic …

In liquid crystals, if flexoelectric couplings between polar order and director gradients are
strong enough, the uniform nematic phase can become unstable to the formation of a …

We report a dynamic light-scattering study of the fluctuation modes in a thermotropic liquid
crystalline mixture of monomer and dimer compounds that exhibits the twist-bend nematic (N …

The director-field configuration of a nematic liquid crystal confined to cylindrical cavities of
polycarbonate Nuclepore membranes ranging from 0.3 to 0.05 μm in radius is determined …

The combined effects of the tendency of cholesterol to order lipids in the liquid phase and the
coupling between lipids in the two leaves of a bilayer are investigated theoretically utilizing …