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Record W4410452742 · doi:10.1039/d5sm00121h

Cholesteric liquid crystal roughness models: from statistical characterization to inverse engineering

2025· article· en· W4410452742 on OpenAlexafffund
Ziheng Wang, Phillip Servio, Alejandro D. Rey

Bibliographic record

VenueSoft Matter · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicLiquid Crystal Research Advancements
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersAlliance de recherche numérique du CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaFaculty of Engineering, McGill UniversityMcGill University
KeywordsCharacterization (materials science)InverseSurface finishLiquid crystalSurface roughnessInverse problemCrystal (programming language)Materials scienceSurface (topology)Statistical physicsNanotechnologyOpticsPhysicsMathematicsComputer scienceGeometryMathematical analysisComposite material

Abstract

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, 119739]. Previous studies on cholesteric liquid crystal surfaces have primarily focused on an elastic approach, which does not fully capture the anisotropic nature and multiscale wrinkling profiles. The objective of this research is to characterize the surface geometry of CLCs based on a generalized anisotropic anchoring model (the Rapini-Papoular model). In this paper, we propose both analytic approximations and direct numerical solutions for surface wrinkling, curvature profiles, and surface roughness characterization. We also explore the important limits of the Rapini-Papoular model, including lower bounds for the kurtosis and Willmore energy. The inverse problem offers an alternative approach to measuring the anchoring coefficients, which are difficult to determine experimentally. These findings suggest that surface anchoring is the key determinant of multiscale surface wrinkling patterns. This paper sheds light on the applications and functionalities of surface wrinkling patterns in liquid crystals and their solid analogues. Furthermore, this research incorporates a novel coordinate-free differential geometric approach and provides a general framework for studying dynamic properties and surface evolution.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.410
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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