Viviana Palacio Betancur

Computational materials scientist interested in multiscale modeling of soft matter.

Publications

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Chemistry of Materials LCPOM

Chemistry of Materials — 2024

LCPOM

Reconstruction of LCs polarized optical microscopy images.

Soft Matter - Chiral Toroids

Soft Matter — 2023

Chiral Toroids

Effect of curved confinement on chiral LC phases.

Soft Matter - Tactoids

Soft Matter — 2020

Spheroidal confinement of Blue Phases

Multiaxial geometrical frustration of chiral LC morphologies.

Publication List

Molecular charge topologies govern polar nematic ordering

Palacio-Betancur V, Jackson N

Published in ChemRxiv. Submitted to JACS, 2025 | DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-crg6c

Modeling of liquid crystal elastomer particles

Chen, C.*, Palacio-Betancur, V.*, Rowan, S., & de Pablo, J. J.

Submitted to Nature Communications, 2025

LCPOM: Precise reconstruction of polarized optical microscopy images of liquid crystals

Chen, C., Palacio-Betancur, V.*, Norouzi, S., Zubieta-Rico, P. F., Chang, N., Sadati, M., Rowan, S. J., & de Pablo, J. J.

Published in Chemistry of Materials, 2024 | DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02425

Curvature and confinement effects on chiral liquid crystal morphologies

Palacio-Betancur, V., Armas-Pérez, J. C., Hernández-Ortiz, J. P., & de Pablo, J. J.

Published in Soft Matter, 2023 | DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00437f

Strongly chiral liquid crystals in nanoemulsions

Yang, Y.*, Palacio-Betancur, V.*, Wang, X., de Pablo, J. J., & Abbott, N. L.

Published in Small, 2022 | DOI: 10.1002/smll.202105835

Liquid crystal films as active substrates for nanoparticle control

Gharbi, I., Palacio-Betancur, V., Ayeb, H., Demaille, D., de Pablo, J. J., Kamien, R. D., & Lacaze, E.

Published in ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2021 | DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.1c00680

Directing the far-from-equilibrium assembly of nanoparticles in confined liquid crystals by hydrodynamic fields

Villada-Gil, S.*, Palacio-Betancur, V.*, Armas-Pérez, J. C., de Pablo, J. J., & Hernández-Ortiz, J. P.

Published in Soft Matter, 2021 | DOI: 10.1039/d0ss02221g

Cuboidal liquid crystal phases under multiaxial geometrical frustration

Palacio-Betancur, V., Armas-Pérez, J. C., Villada-Gil, S., Abbott, N. L., Hernández-Ortiz, J. P., & de Pablo, J. J.

Published in Soft Matter, 2020 | DOI: 10.1039/c9sm02021g

Reconfigurable multicompartment emulsion drops formed by nematic liquid crystals and immiscible perfluorocarbon oils

Wang, X., Zhou, Y., Palacio-Betancur, V., Kim, Y.-K., Delalande, L., Tsuei, M., Yang, Y., de Pablo, J. J., & Abbott, N. L.

Published in Langmuir, 2019 | DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02864

Fluctuations and phase transitions of uniaxial and biaxial liquid crystals

Villada-Gil, S., Palacio-Betancur, V., Armas-Pérez, J. C., de Pablo, J. J., & Hernández-Ortiz, J. P.

Published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2019 | DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab0394

Educating local radial basis functions using the highest gradient of interest in three dimensional geometries

Palacio-Betancur, V., Villada-Gil, S., de Pablo, J. J., & Hernández-Ortiz, J. P.

Published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/nme.5368