Local chiral symmetry breaking in triatic liquid crystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhao, Kun ^a   Bruinsma, Robijn ^a   Mason, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CHIRAL SYMMETRY BREAKING; CRYSTAL; DYNAMICS; ENTROPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; TRIATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL;

EID: 84860467731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1803     Document Type: Article

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