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SUBMITTER: Tanaka S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4632023 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20151104
Cholesteric blue phases are liquid crystalline phases in which the constituent rod-like molecules spontaneously form three-dimensional, helical structures. Despite theoretical predictions that they are composed of cylindrical substructures within which the liquid crystal molecules are doubly twisted, real space observation of the arrangement of such structures had not been performed. Through transmission electron microscopy of photopolymerized blue phases with controlled lattice plane orientatio ...[more]