Computtional Modelling of Surfactant Liquid Crystal Structures.pptVIP

Auckland Seminar Computational Modelling of Surfactant Liquid Crystal Structures Certain surfactant (“surface-active agent”) liquid crystals are known to have intricate and complex three dimensional structures, which are conjectured to be based on minimal surfaces.The most promising avenue for structure determination involves X-ray diffraction, but analysis is non-trivial and relies on mathematical and computational models. This talk outlines the development of recent models and associated computation techniques, and demonstrates that the conjecture is probably true for at least one liquid