Abstract:Spatially ordered systems confined to surfaces such as spheres exhibit interesting topological structures because of curvature induced frustration in orientational as well as translational order. The study of these structures is important for investigating the interplay between geometry, topology, and elasticity, and for their potential applications in materials science. In this work we numerically simulate a spherical monolayer of soft repulsive spherocylinders (SRS) and study the packing of rods and their or… Show more
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