Three-dimensional colloidal crystals in liquid crystalline blue phases

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

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5188-5192

  Ravnik, Miha ^a,b   Alexander, Gareth P ^b,c   Yeomans, Julia M ^b   Žumer, Slobodan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

3D self assembly; Chirality; Colloids; Mesoscopic modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MECHANICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79955106057     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015831108     Document Type: Article

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