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Non-Hookean statistical mechanics of clamped graphene ribbons [PDF]

, 2017
Thermally fluctuating sheets and ribbons provide an intriguing forum in which to investigate strong violations of Hooke's Law: large distance elastic parameters are in fact not constant, but instead depend on the macroscopic dimensions.
A. M. A. van der Heijden, Andrej Košmrlj, D. Frenkel, David R. Nelson, K. J. Wiese, L. D. Landau, M. I. Katsnelson, Mark J. Bowick, Rastko Sknepnek   +8 more
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Spatially heterogeneous dynamics in a thermosensitive soft suspension before and after the glass transition [PDF]

, 2011
The microscopic dynamics and aging of a soft thermosensitive suspension was investigated by looking at the thermal fluctuations of tracers in the suspension.
Abou, Bérengère, Alsayed, Ahmed M., Castaing, Jean-Christophe, Colin, Rémy, Goyal, Rajesh, Hough, Larry   +5 more
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Active motion on curved surfaces

, 2017
A theoretical analysis of active motion on curved surfaces is presented in terms of a generalization of the Telegrapher's equation. Such generalized equation is explicitly derived as the polar approximation of the hierarchy of equations obtained from the
Castro-Villarreal, Pavel, Sevilla, Francisco J.   +1 more
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Knotted Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals

, 2014
We show that the number of distinct topological states associated to a given knotted defect, $L$, in a nematic liquid crystal is equal to the determinant of the link $L$.
Alexander, Gareth P., Machon, Thomas
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Energy invariance in capillary systems [PDF]

, 2017
We demonstrate the continuous translational invariance of the energy of a capillary surface in contact with reconfigurable solid boundaries. We present a theoretical approach to find the energy-invariant equilibria of spherical capillary surfaces in ...
Guan, Jian, Ledesma-Aguilar, Rodrigo, McHale, Glen, Ruiz Gutierrez, Elfego, Wells, Gary, Xu, Ben   +5 more
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Relationship between Structure, Entropy and Diffusivity in Water and Water-like Liquids

, 2010
Anomalous behaviour of the excess entropy ($S_e$) and the associated scaling relationship with diffusivity are compared in liquids with very different underlying interactions but similar water-like anomalies: water (SPC/E and TIP3P models), tetrahedral ...
Agarwal M., Agarwal M., Agarwal M., Agarwal M., Baranyai A., Berendsen H. J. C., Chaimovich A., Chakraborty S. N., Chakraborty S. N., de Oliveira A. B., Debendetti P. G., Debenedetti P. G., Dzugutov M., Dzugutov M., Errington J. R., Errington J. R., Feeney M. R., Frenkel D., Gnan N., Goel T., Green H. S., Hemmati M., Henchman R. H., Hoyt J. J., Jagla E. A., Johnson M. E., Jorgensen W. L., Kanno H., Karmakar S., Kaur C., Krekelberg W. P., Krekelberg W. P., Kumar P., Laird B. B., Mishima O., Mittal J., Mittal J., Mittal J., Molinero V., Pamies J. C., Pedersen U. R., Poole P. H., Roseneld Y., Rosenfeld Y., Rosenfeld Y., Sastry S., Scala A., Sciortino F., Sharma R., Sharma R., Shell M. S., Smith W., Starr F. W., Tanaka H., van Beest B. W. H., Vega C., Woodcock L. V., Yan Z., Yan Z.   +58 more
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Phase diagram and aggregation dynamics of a monolayer of paramagnetic colloids

, 2017
We have developed a tunable colloidal system and a corresponding simulation model for studying the phase behavior of particles assembling under the influence of long-range magnetic interactions.
Charbonneau, Patrick, Detwiler, Paige, Pham, An T., Socolar, Joshua E. S., Yellen, Benjamin B., Zhuang, Yuan   +5 more
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Phase separation dynamics in colloid-polymer mixtures: the effect of interaction range

, 2012
Colloid-polymer mixtures may undergo either fluid-fluid phase separation or gelation. This depends on the depth of the quench (polymer concentration) and polymer-colloid size ratio.
Bartlett, Paul, Faers, Malcolm A., Royall, C. Patrick, Zhang, Isla   +3 more
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Assembly of hard spheres in a cylinder: a computational and experimental study

, 2016
Hard spheres are an important benchmark of our understanding of natural and synthetic systems. In this work, colloidal experiments and Monte Carlo simulations examine the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium assembly of hard spheres of diameter $\sigma ...
Bian, Ce, Charbonneau, Patrick, Cruz, Daniela F., Fu, Lin, López, Gabriel P., Shields IV, C. Wyatt   +5 more
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Granular Solid Hydrodynamics (GSH): a broad-ranged macroscopic theory of granular media

, 2014
A unified continuum-mechanical theory has been until now lacking for granular media, some believe it could not exist. Derived employing the hydrodynamic approach, GSH is such a theory, though as yet a qualitative one.
Jiang, Yimin, Liu, Mario
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