Our paper "Shape instabilities driven by topological defects in nematic polymer networks" adopts an elegant variational approach to model theoretically, for the first time, a wide range of topological defects in liquid crystalline networks
doi.org/10.1007/s106...

My first post here highlights our recent fundamental theoretical and computational work on "Deformation localisation in stretched liquid crystal elastomers", Mechanics of Soft Materials 6, 8 (2024)

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#LCE #necking #order-parameter #shear-striping #nematic-penetration-depth