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| I will talk about the buckling instabilities and pattern formation during the buckling of 2D monolayers made of chiral lipids. I will discuss the transition from a striped phase at low temperature to a disordered phase characterized by a softer splay modulus when the chain melting temperature is crossed. This transition is also sensitive to the boundary-conditions at the core of the domains and at their edges. In 3D these lipids display a ribbon phase in bulk and when these lipids are polymerized a plethora of crumpled surfaces emerges depending on the amount of polymer created in the surface. |
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Mechanical Instabilities in Polymer Films, Interfaces and Nanostructures
8:30 AM-11:40 AM, Monday, April 7, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Grand Salon 19, Oral
Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering |