AFM, X-ray diffraction and optical microscopy studies of faceted droplets of a thermotropic bicontinuous cubic mesophase.
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Pawel Pieranski
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When boundaries dominate: dislocation dynamics in smectic films.
We discuss the influence of dissipation at a system boundary (film-meniscus interface) on the dynamics of dislocation loops inside a smectic film. This dissipation induces a strong coupling between dislocations-effectively independent of their separation-leading to their nontrivial dynamics. Because of these dynamics, the effective "dynamical" radius of nucleation can be 10 times larger than the usual static critical radius.
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