Effects of orientational order on modulated cylindrical interfaces.

Cylindrical interfaces occur in sheared or deformed emulsions and as biological or technological lipid monolayer or bilayer tubules. Like the corresponding spherical droplets and vesicles, these cylinderlike surfaces may host orientational order with n-fold rotational symmetry, for example in the positions of lipid molecules or of spherical nanoparticles. We examine how that order interacts with and induces shape modulations of cylindrical interfaces.

The Role of Chemical Heterogeneity in Surfactant Adsorption at Solid-Liquid Interfaces.

Chemical heterogeneity of solid surfaces disrupts the adsorption of surfactants from the bulk liquid. While its presence can hinder the performance of some formulations, bespoke chemical patterning could potentially facilitate controlled adsorption for nanolithography applications. Although some computational studies have investigated the impact of regularly patterned surfaces on surfactant adsorption, in reality, many interesting surfaces are expected to be stochastically disordered and this is an area unexplored via simulations.

Controlling the morphological evolution of a particle-stabilized binary-component system.

This work reveals the association between the morphological evolutions in particle-stabilized binary-component systems (i.e., binary liquids and polymer blends).