36th M. Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics: Soft Matter, Information Processing and Nonequilibrium Fluctuations

Session

Session 12

27 Sept 2023, 17:15

Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University

88. Entropy-driven formation of modulated and frustrated mesophases in a system composed of bent-core molecules

Piotr Kubala (Jagiellonian University)

27/09/2023, 17:15

Regular Talk

TBA

26. Properly dealing with recent discoveries in suspensions of bent colloidal rods by means of a grand-canonical Landau-de Gennes theory

Carmine Anzivino (Department of Physics "A. Pontremoli", University of Milan, Milan (Italy))

27/09/2023, 17:40

Regular Talk

Bent-core liquid crystals are mesophases formed by molecules having a "banana-like" shape that favors spontaneous bend deformations in the nematic director field. As a pure bend deformation cannot uniformly fill 3D space, Meyer and later independently Dozov argued that these local bend deformations should be accompanied by either a twist or a splay deformation [1]. In the former case, they...