Blue-phase liquid crystal droplets

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 43, 2015, Pages 13195-13200

  Martínez González, José A ^a   Zhou, Ye ^a   Rahimi, Mohammad ^a   Bukusoglu, Emre ^b   Abbott, Nicholas L ^b   De Pablo, Juan J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue phases; Chiral liquid crystals; Confinement; Droplets

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84945583863     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514251112     Document Type: Article

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