The paper focuses on the instability of planar smectic layers like the undulation instability. This time it is not caused by the dilatation, but by the director tile away from the layer normal - effective dilatation. We are especially interested in the formation of onions. It appears that the key is a local perforation of layers, which can be desribed by a variable degree of smectic order.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2254948
The paper focuses on the instability of planar smectic layers like the undulation instability. This time it is not caused by the dilatation, but by the director tile away from the layer normal - effective dilatation. We are especially interested in the formation of onions. It appears that the key is a local perforation of layers, which can be desribed by a variable degree of smectic order.
COBISS.SI-ID: 15853657
A complete form of the van der Waals dispersion interaction between an infinitely long anisotropic semiconducting/insulating thin cylinder and an anisotropic half space is derived for all separations between the cylinder and the half space. The approach is valid in the retarded as well as nonretarded regimes of the interaction.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2240356
We derive the complete form of the van der Waals dispersion interaction between two infinitely long anisotropic semiconducting/insulating thin cylinders at all separations. This formulation is then used to calculate the dispersion interactions between a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes at all separations and all angles. Nonretarded and retarded forms of the interactions are developed separately.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2189156
We investigate the thermodynamics of complexation of functionalized charged nanospheres with viral proteins. The physics of this problem is governed not only by electrostatic interaction between the proteins and the nanosphere cores (screened by salt ions), but also by configurational degrees of freedom of the charged protein N tails.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2244196