Fine structure of the topological defect cores studied for disclinations in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

Topological defects play important roles in determining material properties, whilst their core regions remain unexplored due to strongly distorted structures. Zhouet al. take advantage of extended core regions in a chromonic liquid crystal and show both a radial and azimuthal dependent director and...

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Main Authors: Shuang Zhou, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Heung-Shik Park, Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14974