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SUBMITTER: Sadati M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7439570 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sadati Monirosadat M Martinez-Gonzalez Jose A JA Zhou Ye Y Qazvini Nader Taheri NT Kurtenbach Khia K Li Xiao X Bukusoglu Emre E Zhang Rui R Abbott Nicholas L NL Hernandez-Ortiz Juan Pablo JP de Pablo Juan J JJ
Science advances 20200710 28
Liquid crystals are known to exhibit intriguing textures and color patterns, with applications in display and optical technologies. This work focuses on chiral materials and examines the palette of morphologies that arises when microdroplets are deformed into nonspherical shapes in a controllable manner. Specifically, geometrical confinement and mechanical strain are used to manipulate orientational order, phase transitions, and topological defects that arise in chiral liquid crystal droplets. I ...[more]