Topological Defect-Guided Regular Stacking of Focal Conic Domains in Hybrid-Aligned Smectic Liquid Crystal Shells
We study liquid crystal (LC) shells in hybrid configuration (director tangential to the inside but normal to the outside) as they slowly undergo a transition from a nematic (N) to a smectic-A (SmA) phase. Every shell has two antipodal +1 topological defects, at the thinnest and thickest points, resp...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Crystals |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/11/8/913 |