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SUBMITTER: Kim DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4725769 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160104
Soft materials with layered structure such as membranes, block copolymers and smectics exhibit intriguing morphologies with nontrivial curvatures. Here, we report restructuring the Gaussian and mean curvatures of smectic A films with free surface in the process of sintering, that is, reshaping at elevated temperatures. The pattern of alternating patches of negative, zero and positive mean curvature of the air-smectic interface has a profound effect on the rate of sublimation. As a result of subl ...[more]