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弹性壳在无水溶剂中的变形和链化

Deformation and chaining of flexible shells in a nematic solvent

Andrew DeBenedictis, Andrea L. Rodarte, Linda S. Hirst, Timothy J. Atherton

摘要:

如果变形的成本与液晶的弹性形变的成本相当,则浸没在液晶中的微米级弹性壳体可以被主机变形。此外,这种夹杂物相互作用,并形成链,由于四极畸变诱导的主机。一个连续的理论模型,使用有限元开发了这个系统,使用网格正则化和动态细化,以确保质量的数值表示,即使是大变形。从这个模型中,我们确定的影响,壳的弹性,弹性和锚固条件的形状的壳,从而提取参数值从实验实现。将该模型扩展到多体相互作用,我们预测了链相对于主机的取向角作为纵横比的函数,这被发现与实验非常吻合,大大提高了以前的理论预测。

英文摘要:

A micrometer-scale elastic shell immersed in a nematic liquid crystal may be deformed by the host if the cost of deformation is comparable to the cost of elastic deformation of the nematic. Moreover, such inclusions interact and form chains due to quadrupolar distortions induced in the host. A continuum theory model using finite elements is developed for this system, using mesh regularization and dynamic refinement to ensure quality of the numerical representation even for large deformations. From this model, we determine the influence of the shell elasticity, nematic elasticity and anchoring condition on the shape of the shell and hence extract parameter values from an experimental realization. Extending the model to multi-body interactions, we predict the alignment angle of the chain with respect to the host nematic as a function of aspect ratio, which is found to be in excellent agreement with experiments and greatly improves upon previous theoretical predictions.

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