Geometrical frustration of chiral ordering in cholesteric droplets

Soft Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 11982-11988

  Seč, David ^a   Porenta, Tine ^a   Ravnik, Miha ^a,b   Žumer, Slobodan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Center of Excellence NAMASTE   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CHOLESTERIC PITCH; CHOLESTERIC STRUCTURE; COMPLEX COMPOSITIONS; DIRECTOR FIELDS; DISCLINATION LINES; DISCLINATION RINGS; DISCLINATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURES; GEOMETRICAL FRUSTRATIONS; META-STABLE; VARIABLE PITCH;

DROPS;

EID: 84870013904     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm27048j     Document Type: Article

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