Liquid crystals
Liquid crystals
"Simulations of nematic liquid crystals: confined geometries, phase transitions and topological defects", N.V. Priezjev, PhD thesis, Brown University (2002) PPT slides
"External and intrinsic anchoring in nematic liquid crystals: A Monte Carlo study"
N.V. Priezjev, G. Skacej, R.A. Pelcovits, S. Zumer, Physical Review E 68, 041709 (2003) pdf
I. Amimori, N.V. Priezjev, R.A. Pelcovits, G.P. Crawford, Journal of Applied Physics 93, 3248 (2003) pdf
P.A. Kossyrev, J. Qi, N.V. Priezjev, R.A. Pelcovits, G.P. Crawford, Applied Physics Letters 81, 2986 (2002) pdf
"Optical and mechanical properties of stretched PDLC films for scattering polarizers"
I. Amimori, J.N. Eakin, G.P. Crawford, N.V. Priezjev, R.A. Pelcovits, Soc. Inform. Display Tech. Digest 33, 834-837 (2002) pdf
P.A. Kossyrev, J. Qi, N.V. Priezjev, R.A. Pelcovits, G.P. Crawford, Soc. Inform. Display Tech. Digest 33, 506-509 (2002) pdf
"Coarsening dynamics of biaxial nematic liquid crystals"
N.V. Priezjev and R.A. Pelcovits, Physical Review E 66, 051705 (2002) pdf, online project description and animations
"Disclination loop behavior near the nematic-isotropic transition"
N.V. Priezjev and R.A. Pelcovits, Physical Review E 64, 031710 (2001) pdf, seminar on the N-I transition
"Cluster Monte Carlo simulations of the nematic-isotropic transition"
N.V. Priezjev and R.A. Pelcovits, Physical Review E 63, 062702 (2001) pdf
"Surface extrapolation length and director structures in confined nematics"
N.V. Priezjev and R.A. Pelcovits, Physical Review E 62, 6734 (2000) pdf, APS talk