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SUBMITTER: Dussi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4832067 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dussi Simone S Dijkstra Marjolein M
Nature communications 20160412
Predicting the macroscopic chiral behaviour of liquid crystals from the microscopic chirality of the particles is highly non-trivial, even when the chiral interactions are purely entropic in nature. Here we introduce a novel chiral hard-particle model, namely particles with a twisted polyhedral shape and obtain a stable fully entropy-driven cholesteric phase by computer simulations. By slightly modifying the triangular base of the particle, we are able to switch from a left-handed prolate (calam ...[more]