Waltzing route toward double-helix formation in cholesteric shells

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

Volumn 113, Issue 34, 2016, Pages 9469-9474

  Darmon, Alexandre ^a   Benzaquen, Michael ^a,c   Seč, David ^b,d   Čopar, Simon ^b   Dauchot, Olivier ^a   Lopez Leon, Teresa ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c Capital Fund Management   (France)

^d Adria Tehnik doo   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Chirality; Geometrical frustration; Liquid crystals; Spherical shell; Topological defect

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIVALENT CHOLESTERIC SHELL; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; EMULSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MONOVALENT CHOLESTERIC SHELL; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84983688780     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525059113     Document Type: Article

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