Freddy Brugmans

Isometric bending discriminates intrinsic from extrinsic curvature coupling of nematic order in skin

Oriented structures in skin — hair and feather follicle axes, collagen bundles, elongatedepithelial cells — can be coarse-grained into a tangential nematic order parameter on acurved surface. Such a field couples to geometry in two physically distinct ways: intrinsically,through...

Isometric bending discriminates intrinsic from extrinsic curvature coupling of nematic order in skin

Oriented structures in skin — hair and feather follicle axes, collagen bundles, elongatedepithelial cells — can be coarse-grained into a tangential nematic order parameter on acurved surface. Such a field couples to geometry in two physically distinct ways: intrinsically,through...