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SUBMITTER: Garlea IC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4931596 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gârlea Ioana C IC Mulder Pieter P Alvarado José J Dammone Oliver O Aarts Dirk G A L DG Lettinga M Pavlik MP Koenderink Gijsje H GH Mulder Bela M BM
Nature communications 20160629
When liquid crystals are confined to finite volumes, the competition between the surface anchoring imposed by the boundaries and the intrinsic orientational symmetry-breaking of these materials gives rise to a host of intriguing phenomena involving topological defect structures. For synthetic molecular mesogens, like the ones used in liquid-crystal displays, these defect structures are independent of the size of the molecules and well described by continuum theories. In contrast, colloidal syste ...[more]