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Defect transition of smectic liquid crystals confined in spherical cavities

Authors :
Ming Zhou
Yu-Wei Sun
Zhan-Wei Li
Han-Wen Pei
Bing Li
You-Liang Zhu
Zhao-Yan Sun
Source :
Soft Matter. 19:3570-3579
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2023.

Abstract

Under spherical confinement with different conditions, defects of LCs change from bipolar to striped textures, then change into tetrahedral defects.

Details

ISSN :
17446848 and 1744683X
Volume :
19
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Soft Matter
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........087b9ff31acb594fd2faaf9851195a2a
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm01706g