Electric field controlled columnar and planar patterning of cholesteric colloids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 17, 2015, Pages

  D'Adamo, G ^a   Marenduzzo, D ^b   Micheletti, C ^a   Orlandini, E ^c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DEFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREE ENERGY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AMORPHOUS DEFECTS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE; LIQUID-CRYSTAL COMPOSITES; METASTABLE EQUILIBRIA; OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM; TIME-DEPENDENT ELECTRIC FIELD;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 84930507794     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.177801     Document Type: Article

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