Toroidal droplets: instabilities, stabilizing and nematic order
The goal of this thesis is to study the ground or metastable state structure of nematic liquid crystal systems confined inside handled shapes such as a torus or double torus. We begin our work by introducing a new method to generate a toroidal droplet from a Newtonian liquid inside another, immiscib...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51913 |