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Chunfeng Zhou
Guest Ph.D. Student with Jimmy Feng, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Self-Assembly of Droplets in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

In recent experiments, micro-particles were observed to self-assemble into regular patterns when dispersed in an anisotropic liquid crystalline medium. I will discuss computational simulations of the pairwise interactions and pattern formation of isotropic droplets in a nematic liquid crystal.

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