Complex tiling patterns in liquid crystals

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 669-680

  Tschierske, C ^a   Nurnberger C ^a   Ebert, H ^a   Glettner, B ^a   Prehm, M ^a   Liu, F ^b   Zeng, X B ^b   Ungar, G ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Liquid crystals; Multi colour tiling patterns; Multi compartment structures; Polyphiles; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865391200     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0087     Document Type: Article

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