Figure 11.

(a) The isotropic elastic energy, ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{sur}}$ (filled symbols), and the anisotropic elastic energy, ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{anis}}$ (open symbols), as a function of λ, for three different values of the anisotropic curvature for a nematic membrane with ϕ_A = N. (b) The relative thermodynamic free energy $\mathcal{F}(\kappa ,{ϵ}_{\mathrm{LL}},{\kappa }^{\parallel },C_0^{\parallel })$ as a function of $C_0^{\parallel }$ for a fully decorated nematic membrane. Shown alongside are the regions corresponding to the various morphologies shown in Fig. 7.