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SUBMITTER: Henrich O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2922121 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henrich Oliver O Stratford Kevin K Marenduzzo Davide D Cates Michael E ME
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100712 30
The cubic blue phases of liquid crystals are fascinating and technologically promising examples of hierarchically structured soft materials, comprising ordered networks of defect lines (disclinations) within a liquid crystalline matrix. We present large-scale simulations of their domain growth, starting from a blue phase nucleus within a supercooled isotropic or cholesteric background. The nucleated phase is thermodynamically stable; one expects its slow orderly growth, creating a bulk cubic pha ...[more]