dc.creator | Patrício, Pedro | es |
dc.creator | Silvestre, Nuno M. | es |
dc.creator | Pham, Chi Tuong | es |
dc.creator | Romero Enrique, José Manuel | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-31T10:50:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-31T10:50:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1539-3755 | es |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11441/39240 | |
dc.description.abstract | Close to sinusoidal substrates, simple fluids may undergo a filling transition, in which the fluid passes from a
dry to a filled state, where the interface remains unbent but bound to the substrate. Increasing the surface field, the
interface unbinds and a wetting transition occurs. We show that this double-transition sequence may be strongly
modified in the case of ordered fluids, such as nematic liquid crystals. Depending on the preferred orientation
of the nematic molecules at the structured substrate and at the isotropic-nematic interface, the filling transition
may not exist, and the fluid passes directly from a dry to a complete-wet state, with the interface far from the
substrate. More interestingly, in other situations, the complete wetting transition may be prevented, and the fluid
passes from a dry to a filled state, and remains in this configuration, with the interface always attached to the
substrate, even for very large surface fields. Both transitions are observed only for a same substrate in a narrow
range of amplitudes | es |
dc.format | application/pdf | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | es |
dc.relation.ispartof | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 84 (2), 021701-1/ 021701-8 | es |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.title | Filling and wetting transitions of nematic liquid crystals on sinusoidal substrates | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dcterms.identifier | https://ror.org/03yxnpp24 | |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.021701 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.021701 | es |
dc.identifier.idus | https://idus.us.es/xmlui/handle/11441/39240 | |