Chiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5163-5168

  Tortora, Luana ^a   Lavrentovich, Oleg D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometrical anchoring; Nematic isotropic coexistence; Parity breaking; Twisted tactoids

Indexed keywords

CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; MACROGOL;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENERGY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTICAL ROTATION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79955088791     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100087108     Document Type: Article

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