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SUBMITTER: Chiappini M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8041804 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20210412 1
In 1976, Meyer predicted that bend distortions of the nematic director field are complemented by deformations of either twist or splay, yielding twist-bend and splay-bend nematic phases, respectively. Four decades later, the existence of the splay-bend nematic phase remains dubious, and the origin of these spontaneous distortions uncertain. Here, we conjecture that bend deformations of the nematic director can be complemented by simultaneous distortions of both twist and splay, yielding a twist- ...[more]