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List of works by Epifanio G. Virga

A blend of stretching and bending in nematic polymer networks

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Bifurcation analysis and computer simulation of biaxial liquid crystals.

scientific article published on 12 October 2005

Bistable curvature potential at hyperbolic points of nematic shells

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Core hysteresis in nematic defects

scientific article published on 06 August 2002

Defect unbinding on a toroidal nematic shell

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Defect-enhanced nematic surface order reconstruction.

scientific article published on 22 March 2007

Density functional theory for dense nematic liquid crystals with steric interactions

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Dilution of nematic surface potentials: relaxation dynamics

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Director libration in nematoacoustics

scientific article published on 12 January 2011

Dissipative shocks behind bacteria gliding

scientific article published in November 2014

Dissipative shocks in a chain fountain

scientific article published on 6 May 2014

Dominant biaxial quadrupolar contribution to the nematic potential of mean torque

scientific article published on 26 August 2008

Double-well elastic theory for twist-bend nematic phases

scientific article published on 08 May 2014

Elastic actions exchanged by eccentric cylinders in liquid crystals

scientific article published on 21 December 2006

Electric field induced order reconstruction in a nematic cell

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Exact second virial coefficient for dipolar hard spheres.

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Explicit excluded volume of cylindrically symmetric convex bodies

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Fingered core structure of nematic boojums.

scientific article published on 2 September 2008

Finite-size effects on order reconstruction around nematic defects.

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Geodesic defect anchoring on nematic shells

scientific article published on 23 August 2012

Inhomogeneous bulk nematic order reconstruction

scientific article published on 20 February 2008

Interfacial and morphological features of a twist-bend nematic drop

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Local elastic stability for nematic liquid crystals

scientific article published on 30 July 2004

Mechanical actions on nanocylinders in nematic liquid crystals

scientific article published on 8 April 2005

Minimal coupling model of the biaxial nematic phase

scientific article published on 25 May 2005

Molecular dynamics simulation of a nanoscopic nematic twist cell

scientific article published on 15 August 2007

Nanomechanics of order reconstruction in nematic liquid crystals

scientific article published on 29 October 2004

Non-monotonic, lily-like twist distribution in toroidal nematics

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Normal red blood cells' shape stabilized by membrane's in-plane ordering

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Octupolar approximation for the excluded volume of axially symmetric convex bodies.

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Octupolar order in three dimensions

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Octupolar order in two dimensions

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Onsager's missing steps retraced

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Onsagerian formula for the excluded volume of spherodisks

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Periodic saddle-splay Freedericksz transition in nematic liquid crystals

scientific article published on 24 March 2005

Perspectives in active liquid crystals

scientific article published on November 2014

Polar steric interactions for V-shaped molecules

scientific article published on 17 July 2008

Quadrupolar projection of excluded-volume interactions in biaxial nematic liquid crystals

scientific article published on 29 August 2006

Rayleigh-Lagrange formalism for classical dissipative systems

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Residual stability of sessile droplets with negative line tension

scientific article published on 06 February 2006

Sign of line tension in liquid bridge stability

scientific article published on 14 September 2004

Steric effects in a mean-field model for polar nematic liquid crystals.

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Steric effects in dispersion forces interactions

scientific article published on 20 March 2008

The Symmetries of Octupolar Tensors

scientific article published in 2019

Theoretical and experimental study of the nanoparticle-driven blue phase stabilisation

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Tricritical points in biaxial liquid crystal phases

scientific article published on 10 June 2005

Uniaxial rebound at the nematic biaxial transition.

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Uniform distortions and generalized elasticity of liquid crystals

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Universal mean-field phase diagram for biaxial nematics obtained from a minimax principle

scientific article published on 19 May 2006

Variational theory for nematoacoustics

scientific article published on 14 September 2009