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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E
Volume 36, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2013-13121-1
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- Human Frontier Science Program [RGP0052/2009-C]
- KAUST [KUK-C1-013-04]
- [LabEx ENS-ICFP: ANR-10-LABX-0010/ANR-10IDEX-0001-02 PSL*]
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We formulate and analyse a model describing the combined effect of mechanical deformation, dynamics of the nematic order parameter, and concentration inhomogeneities in an elastomeric mixture of a mesogenic and an isotropic component. The uniform nematic state may exhibit a long-wave instability corresponding to nematic-isotropic demixing. Numerical simulations starting from either a perfectly ordered nematic state or a quenched isotropic state show that coupling between the mesogen concentration and the nematic order parameter influences the shape and orientation of the domains formed during the demixing process.
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