Chiral structures and defects of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals induced by saddle-splay elasticity

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Davidson, Zoey S ^a   Kang, Louis ^a   Jeong, Joonwoo ^b   Still, Tim ^a   Collings, Peter J ^a,c   Lubensky, Tom C ^a   Yodh, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; DOMAIN WALLS; GROUND STATE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; POINT DEFECTS;

CHIRAL STRUCTURES; DIRECTOR CONFIGURATION; LYOTROPIC CHROMONIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CYLINDER CONFIGURATIONS;

EID: 84930226126     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.050501     Document Type: Article

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