http://pre.aps.org/ Recently published articles in Phys. Rev. E in the Table of Content section "Liquid crystals" en-us Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-05T23:47:20-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-05T23:47:20-05:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041708 Author(s): N. M. Silvestre, P. Patrício, M. M. Telo da Gama, A. Pattanaporkratana, C. S. Park, J. E. Maclennan, and N. A. Clark<br/>We report a detailed theoretical analysis of quadrupolar interactions observed between islands, which are disklike inclusions of extra layers, floating in thin, freely suspended smectic- C liquid crystal films. Strong tangential anchoring at the island boundaries results in a strength +1 chiral defe...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 041708] Published Fri Oct 30, 2009 N. M. Silvestre, P. Patrício, M. M. Telo da Gama, A. Pattanaporkratana, C. S. Park, J. E. Maclennan, and N. A. Clark 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041708 Phys. Rev. E 80, 041708 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 041708 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041707 Author(s): Patrick S. Salter, Giovanni Carbone, Sharon A. Jewell, Steve J. Elston, and Peter Raynes<br/>The symmetry of the cholesteric uniform lying helix (ULH) structure, where the helix axis is aligned in a single direction parallel to the device substrates, is not compatible with a uniform surface alignment and an unwinding of the helical structure is expected at the interface. Fluorescence confoc...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 041707] Published Tue Oct 27, 2009 Patrick S. Salter, Giovanni Carbone, Sharon A. Jewell, Steve J. Elston, and Peter Raynes 2009-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041707 Phys. Rev. E 80, 041707 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-27T00:00:00-04:00 041707 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041706 Author(s): S. A. Jewell, S. L. Cornford, F. Yang, P. S. Cann, and J. R. Sambles<br/>The alignment properties and distribution of flow speed during Poiseuille flow through a microchannel of a nematic liquid crystal in a cell with homeotropic surface alignment has been measured using a combination of conoscopy, fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy, and time-lapse imaging. Two ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 041706] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 S. A. Jewell, S. L. Cornford, F. Yang, P. S. Cann, and J. R. Sambles 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041706 Phys. Rev. E 80, 041706 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 041706 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.042703 Author(s): Sungmin Kang, Seng Kue Lee, Masatoshi Tokita, and Junji Watanabe<br/>A bent-shaped molecule exhibiting the mesophase sequence of B6-B1 was studied to understand the structural characteristics of the B6 phase compared with those of the B1 phase. A well-oriented sample was prepared in a magnetic field and examined by wide-angle x-ray diffraction measurements through th...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 042703] Published Wed Oct 21, 2009 Sungmin Kang, Seng Kue Lee, Masatoshi Tokita, and Junji Watanabe 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.042703 Phys. Rev. E 80, 042703 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 042703 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041705 Author(s): S. M. Kamil, A. K. Bhattacharjee, R. Adhikari, and Gautam I. Menon<br/>We revisit the classic problem of the structure of the isotropic-nematic interface within Ginzburg-Landau-de Gennes theory, refining previous analytic treatments of biaxiality at the interface. We compare our analysis with numerical results obtained through a highly accurate spectral collocation sch...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 041705] Published Wed Oct 21, 2009 S. M. Kamil, A. K. Bhattacharjee, R. Adhikari, and Gautam I. Menon 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041705 Phys. Rev. E 80, 041705 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 041705 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041704 Author(s): Dazhi Sun, Hung-Jue Sue, Zhengdong Cheng, Yuri Martínez-Ratón, and Enrique Velasco<br/>We report the nematic and smectic ordering in an aqueous suspension of monolayer α -Zirconium phosphate platelets possessing a high polydispersity in diameter but uniform thickness. We observe an isotropic-nematic transition as the platelet volume fraction increases, followed by the formation of a ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 041704] Published Thu Oct 15, 2009 Dazhi Sun, Hung-Jue Sue, Zhengdong Cheng, Yuri Martínez-Ratón, and Enrique Velasco 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041704 Phys. Rev. E 80, 041704 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 041704 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.042702 Author(s): I. N. de Oliveira, M. S. S. Pereira, M. L. Lyra, C. Filgueiras, C. Sátiro, and Fernando Moraes<br/>We determine the elastic-mediated interaction between colloidal nanoparticles adsorbed on the surface of free-standing smectic films. In contrast with the short-range character of the elastic-mediated force between particles adsorbed on smectic films supported by a solid substrate, the effective for...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 042702] Published Wed Oct 14, 2009 I. N. de Oliveira, M. S. S. Pereira, M. L. Lyra, C. Filgueiras, C. Sátiro, and Fernando Moraes 2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.042702 Phys. Rev. E 80, 042702 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 042702 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041703 Author(s): Leela Joshi, Shin-Woong Kang, Dena Mae Agra-Kooijman, and Satyendra Kumar<br/>The dye sunset yellow (SY) forms columnar aggregates via π-π stacking in aqueous solutions. These aggregates develop orientational and translational order at elevated concentrations to exhibit the nematic (N) and columnar (C) mesophases. Positional-order correlation lengths of the aggregates in th...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 041703] Published Wed Oct 07, 2009 Leela Joshi, Shin-Woong Kang, Dena Mae Agra-Kooijman, and Satyendra Kumar 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041703 Phys. Rev. E 80, 041703 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 041703 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041702 Author(s): R. Teixeira de Souza, M. M. A. de Jesus, J. C. Dias, and L. R. Evangelista<br/>A nematic cell subjected to a large electric field undergoes a molecular reorientation that affects the electrical current flowing through it. To analytically establish the dependence of the current on the applied voltage, the cell is considered as parallel of resistance, R(t) , and capacitance, C(t...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 041702] Published Wed Oct 07, 2009 R. Teixeira de Souza, M. M. A. de Jesus, J. C. Dias, and L. R. Evangelista 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041702 Phys. Rev. E 80, 041702 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 041702 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.042701 Author(s): Caio Sátiro<br/>The control of the light trajectories in a liquid crystal is studied through a theoretical model based in the variation of the molecular orientation of a ferronematic material. In this model, the director field is mapped into a Riemannian space where the light paths are obtained numerically through ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 042701] Published Tue Oct 06, 2009 Caio Sátiro 2009-10-06T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.042701 Phys. Rev. E 80, 042701 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-06T00:00:00-04:00 042701 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041701 Author(s): Rinto Anugraha, Yoshiki Hidaka, Tatsuhiro Ueki, and Shoichi Kai<br/>In the soft-mode turbulence (SMT) in electroconvection of homeotropic nematic systems, which is a kind of spatiotemporal chaos induced by nonlinear interaction between two two-dimensional (2D) XY fields, the Nambu-Goldstone modes, and the convective modes, a curious line structure called blackline h...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 041701] Published Fri Oct 02, 2009 Rinto Anugraha, Yoshiki Hidaka, Tatsuhiro Ueki, and Shoichi Kai 2009-10-02T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041701 Phys. Rev. E 80, 041701 text/html article Physical Review E 80 4 2009-10-02T00:00:00-04:00 041701 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.032701 Author(s): J. Fontana, C. Bailey, W. Weissflog, I. Jánossy, and A. Jákli<br/>We demonstrate optical waveguiding in recently discovered free-standing bent-core liquid-crystal filaments. The bent-core liquid-crystal molecules in air self-assemble into a cylindrical geometry that is “solidlike” along the radial direction of the filament and liquid in the axial direction of ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 032701] Published Tue Sep 29, 2009 J. Fontana, C. Bailey, W. Weissflog, I. Jánossy, and A. Jákli 2009-09-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.032701 Phys. Rev. E 80, 032701 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-29T00:00:00-04:00 032701 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.030701 Author(s): N. Vaupotič, J. Szydlowska, M. Salamonczyk, A. Kovarova, J. Svoboda, M. Osipov, D. Pociecha, and E. Gorecka<br/>In recent years there are several reports showing that bent-core mesogenic molecules are able to form biaxial nematic phase in which molecular rotation around the long molecular axis is strongly hindered. The x-ray pattern with azimuthally split signals at low angle region of diffraction is usually ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 030701] Published Tue Sep 29, 2009 N. Vaupotič, J. Szydlowska, M. Salamonczyk, A. Kovarova, J. Svoboda, M. Osipov, D. Pociecha, and E. Gorecka 2009-09-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.030701 Phys. Rev. E 80, 030701 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-29T00:00:00-04:00 030701 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031712 Author(s): H. Dhaouadi, N. Bitri, S. Essid, T. Soltani, A. Gharbi, and J. P. Marcerou<br/>Chiral smectic liquid crystals exhibit a series of phases, including ferroelectric, antiferroelectric, and ferrielectric commensurate structures as well as an incommensurate Sm-C_{α}^{∗} phase. We carried out an extension of the phenomenological model recently presented by Hamaneh and Taylor base...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031712] Published Mon Sep 28, 2009 H. Dhaouadi, N. Bitri, S. Essid, T. Soltani, A. Gharbi, and J. P. Marcerou 2009-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031712 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031712 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 031712 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031711 Author(s): A. V. Zakharov and A. A. Vakulenko<br/>We have carried out a numerical study of a system of hydrodynamic equations including director reorientation, fluid flow, and temperature redistribution across a two-dimensional (2D) hybrid-oriented liquid-crystal (HOLC) cell under the influence of a heat flow directed normal to the upper bounding s...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031711] Published Thu Sep 24, 2009 A. V. Zakharov and A. A. Vakulenko 2009-09-24T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031711 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031711 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-24T00:00:00-04:00 031711 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031710 Author(s): Gaetano Napoli and Andrea Nobili<br/>Layered phases are a common pattern of self-organization for several soft materials. These phases undergo buckling instability when subjected to dilatative strain: beyond a critical threshold, layers, initially flat, exhibit a periodical undulation. By using a continuum model, in a finite deformatio...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031710] Published Mon Sep 21, 2009 Gaetano Napoli and Andrea Nobili 2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031710 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031710 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-21T00:00:00-04:00 031710 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031709 Author(s): F. Castles, S. M. Morris, and H. J. Coles<br/>The flexoelectro-optic effect describes the rotation of the optic axis of a short-pitch chiral nematic liquid crystal under the application of an electric field. We investigate the effect in the uniform standing helix, or “Grandjean” configuration. An in-plane electric field is applied. The dire...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031709] Published Fri Sep 18, 2009 F. Castles, S. M. Morris, and H. J. Coles 2009-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031709 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031709 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 031709 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031708 Author(s): A. V. Zakharov and A. A. Vakulenko<br/>Dynamic field pumping principle has been developed utilizing the interactions of both the director and velocity fields and a temperature gradient ∇T . The orientational dynamics in the hybrid-oriented liquid-crystal (HOLC) microvolume confined between two infinitely long coaxial cylinders under th...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031708] Published Fri Sep 18, 2009 A. V. Zakharov and A. A. Vakulenko 2009-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031708 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031708 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 031708 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031707 Author(s): M. Veum, L. Duelge, J. Droske, H. T. Nguyen, C. C. Huang, and L. V. Mirantsev<br/>Using differential scanning calorimetry, the transition enthalpies and temperatures for the bulk smectic-isotropic phase transition have been measured for a series of liquid-crystal compounds. For five compounds, those values were used as parameters in a microscopic mean-field model to predict the t...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031707] Published Wed Sep 16, 2009 M. Veum, L. Duelge, J. Droske, H. T. Nguyen, C. C. Huang, and L. V. Mirantsev 2009-09-16T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031707 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031707 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-16T00:00:00-04:00 031707 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031706 Author(s): Jun-ichi Fukuda (福田順一), Makoto Yoneya (米谷慎), and Hiroshi Yokoyama (横山浩)<br/>We investigate numerically static and dynamic properties of cholesteric blue phases. Our study is based on a Landau–de Gennes theory describing the orientational order of a liquid crystal in terms of a second-rank tensor. To find the shape and size of the unit cell conforming to the minimum of the...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031706] Published Tue Sep 15, 2009 Jun-ichi Fukuda (福田順一), Makoto Yoneya (米谷慎), and Hiroshi Yokoyama (横山浩) 2009-09-15T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031706 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031706 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-15T00:00:00-04:00 031706 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031705 Author(s): Epifanio G. Virga<br/>The effect of an ultrasonic wave on the nematic texture has long been known, but its interpretation in terms of a coherent dynamical theory has not yet been achieved. A proposal for such a theory is made in this paper. The diverse theoretical approaches attempted in the past to describe the interact...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031705] Published Mon Sep 14, 2009 Epifanio G. Virga 2009-09-14T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031705 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031705 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-14T00:00:00-04:00 031705 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031704 Author(s): C. T. Yim<br/>Dispersions of hydrophilic (Aeroxide Alu C) and hydrophobic (Aeroxide Alu C 805) pyrogenic alumina (Al_{2} O_{3} ) in liquid crystal 4^{′} -n-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) were investigated with deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance. The disorder effects of Al_{2} O_{3} particles on the orientational...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031704] Published Thu Sep 10, 2009 C. T. Yim 2009-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031704 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031704 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 031704 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031703 Author(s): Z. Shreif, S. Pankavich, and P. Ortoleva<br/>A rigorous theory of liquid-crystal transitions is developed starting from the Liouville equation. The starting point is an all-atom description and a set of order-parameter field variables that are shown to evolve slowly via Newton’s equations. The separation of time scales between that of atomic...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031703] Published Thu Sep 10, 2009 Z. Shreif, S. Pankavich, and P. Ortoleva 2009-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031703 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031703 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 031703 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031702 Author(s): Giovanni De Matteis and Silvano Romano<br/>The present paper considers nematogenic lattice models, involving particles of D_{2h} symmetry, whose centers of mass are associated with a three-dimensional simple cubic lattice; the pair potential is isotropic in orientation space and restricted to nearest neighbors. Let two orthonormal triads def...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031702] Published Tue Sep 08, 2009 Giovanni De Matteis and Silvano Romano 2009-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031702 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031702 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 031702 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031701 Author(s): P. S. Salter, P. W. Benzie, R. A. Reddy, C. Tschierske, S. J. Elston, and E. P. Raynes<br/>An achiral fixed bent-core nematic liquid crystal in an antiparallel aligned planar device is observed to form three distinct domains. Regions are observed which are achiral planar, as well as domains displaying both positive and negative chirality that are stable over a significant temperature inte...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 031701] Published Thu Sep 03, 2009 P. S. Salter, P. W. Benzie, R. A. Reddy, C. Tschierske, S. J. Elston, and E. P. Raynes 2009-09-03T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031701 Phys. Rev. E 80, 031701 text/html article Physical Review E 80 3 2009-09-03T00:00:00-04:00 031701 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021704 Author(s): B. K. P. Scaife, A. A. Sigarev, J. K. Vij, and J. W. Goodby<br/>The theory of the absorbance of a semi-infinite medium characterized by a second-rank dielectric tensor for the entire electromagnetic spectrum, as given by Scaife and Vij [J. Chem. Phys. 122, 174901 (2005)], is extended to include molecules of prolate spheriodal shape with longitudinal and transver...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 021704] Published Mon Aug 31, 2009 B. K. P. Scaife, A. A. Sigarev, J. K. Vij, and J. W. Goodby 2009-08-31T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021704 Phys. Rev. E 80, 021704 text/html article Physical Review E 80 2 2009-08-31T00:00:00-04:00 021704 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021703 Author(s): S Sridevi, S. Krishna Prasad, and Geetha G. Nair<br/>In a system consisting of photoactive molecules that exhibit light-driven isomerization transformations, actinic light can diminish or enhance ordering to the extent that transitions from the equilibrium to a more disordered phase can be brought about isothermally. This feature enables light to be u...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 021703] Published Fri Aug 28, 2009 S Sridevi, S. Krishna Prasad, and Geetha G. Nair 2009-08-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021703 Phys. Rev. E 80, 021703 text/html article Physical Review E 80 2 2009-08-28T00:00:00-04:00 021703 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021702 Author(s): Shingo Tanaka, Hideo Takezoe, Nándor Éber, Katalin Fodor-Csorba, Anikó Vajda, and Ágnes Buka<br/>The onset of electroconvection in binary mixtures of a bent-core and a rodlike nematic has been characterized by measuring the threshold voltage U_{c} and the critical wave number of the pattern in a wide range of frequencies f . In the mixtures rich in bent-core molecules, a “conductive-prewavy2-...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 021702] Published Mon Aug 10, 2009 Shingo Tanaka, Hideo Takezoe, Nándor Éber, Katalin Fodor-Csorba, Anikó Vajda, and Ágnes Buka 2009-08-10T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021702 Phys. Rev. E 80, 021702 text/html article Physical Review E 80 2 2009-08-10T00:00:00-04:00 021702 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021701 Author(s): A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, G. Barbero, and L. Komitov<br/>A generalization of the functional form of the anchoring energy of a nematic liquid crystal in contact with a structured surface is proposed. The structured surface is represented by side-chain polymer, containing only aliphatic or aliphatic and mesogenic side groups, deposited as a thin alignment f...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 021701] Published Thu Aug 06, 2009 A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, G. Barbero, and L. Komitov 2009-08-06T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021701 Phys. Rev. E 80, 021701 text/html article Physical Review E 80 2 2009-08-06T00:00:00-04:00 021701 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011708 Author(s): Snigdha Thakur, Pramod A. Pullarkat, and P. B. Sunil Kumar<br/>Phase-separation dynamics of an asymmetric mixture of an isotropic dopant in a nematogenic fluid is presented. We show that, on steady cooling, the nucleating nematic drops move down the dopant concentration gradient, with a velocity that is dependent on the cooling rate and concentration gradient. ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 011708] Published Fri Jul 31, 2009 Snigdha Thakur, Pramod A. Pullarkat, and P. B. Sunil Kumar 2009-07-31T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011708 Phys. Rev. E 80, 011708 text/html article Physical Review E 80 1 2009-07-31T00:00:00-04:00 011708 Liquid crystals Liquid crystals