Publication Date:
2018-12-15
Description:
Author(s): Perry W. Ellis, Karthik Nayani, James P. McInerney, D. Zeb Rocklin, Jung Ok Park, Mohan Srinivasarao, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, and Alberto Fernandez-Nieves We confine a nematic liquid crystal with homeotropic anchoring to stable toroidal droplets and study how geometry affects the equilibrium director configuration. In contrast to the case of cylindrical confinement, we find that the equilibrium state is chiral—a twisted and escaped radial director con... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247803] Published Fri Dec 14, 2018
Keywords:
Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics
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