| Alignment tensor versus director: Description of defects in nematic liquid crystals A Sonnet, A Kilian, S Hess Physical Review E 52 (1), 718, 1995 | 229 | 1995 |
| Dielectric shape dispersion and biaxial transitions in nematic liquid crystals AM Sonnet, EG Virga, GE Durand Physical Review E 67 (6), 061701, 2003 | 170 | 2003 |
| Dissipative ordered fluids: theories for liquid crystals AM Sonnet, EG Virga Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 150 | 2012 |
| Continuum theory for nematic liquid crystals with tensorial order AM Sonnet, PL Maffettone, EG Virga Journal of non-newtonian fluid mechanics 119 (1), 51-59, 2004 | 103 | 2004 |
| Electric field induced order reconstruction in a nematic cell R Barberi, F Ciuchi, GE Durand, M Iovane, D Sikharulidze, AM Sonnet, ... The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics 13 (1 …, 2004 | 95 | 2004 |
| Universal mean-field phase diagram for biaxial nematics obtained from a minimax principle F Bisi, EG Virga, EC Gartland Jr, G De Matteis, AM Sonnet, GE Durand Physical Review E 73 (5), 051709, 2006 | 93 | 2006 |
| Dynamics of dissipative ordered fluids AM Sonnet, EG Virga Physical Review E 64 (3), 031705, 2001 | 81 | 2001 |
| Landau theory for biaxial nematic liquid crystals with two order parameter tensors GD Matteis, AM Sonnet, EG Virga Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 20 (6), 347-374, 2008 | 47 | 2008 |
| Dilution of nematic surface potentials: Relaxation dynamics AM Sonnet, EG Virga, GE Durand Physical Review E 62 (3), 3694, 2000 | 34 | 2000 |
| Elastic forces on nematic point defects EC Gartland, Jr, AM Sonnet, EG Virga Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 14 (3), 307-319, 2002 | 31 | 2002 |
| Molecular reorientation of a nematic glass by laser-induced heat flow R Elschner, R Macdonald, HJ Eichler, S Hess, AM Sonnet Physical Review E 60 (2), 1792, 1999 | 24 | 1999 |
| Steric effects in dispersion forces interactions AM Sonnet, EG Virga Physical Review E 77 (3), 031704, 2008 | 23 | 2008 |
| Flow and reorientation in the dynamics of nematic defects AM Sonnet, EG Virga Liquid Crystals 36 (10-11), 1185-1192, 2009 | 22 | 2009 |
| Steric effects in a mean-field model for polar nematic liquid crystals F Bisi, AM Sonnet, EG Virga Physical Review E 82 (4), 041709, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Shear-induced biaxiality in nematic polymers PL Maffettone, AM Sonnet, EG Virga Journal of non-newtonian fluid mechanics 90 (2), 283-297, 2000 | 20 | 2000 |
| A blend of stretching and bending in nematic polymer networks O Ozenda, AM Sonnet, EG Virga Soft Matter 16 (38), 8877-8892, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Geodesic defect anchoring on nematic shells LV Mirantsev, AM Sonnet, EG Virga Physical Review E 86 (2), 020703, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| Bistable curvature potential at hyperbolic points of nematic shells AM Sonnet, EG Virga Soft Matter 13 (38), 6792-6802, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Evolution of vesicles subject to adhesion R Rosso, AÉM Sonnet, EG Virga Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and …, 2000 | 14 | 2000 |
| Dynamics of nematic loop disclinations AM Sonnet, EG Virga Physical Review E 56 (6), 6834, 1997 | 14 | 1997 |
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