Dynamic tuning of the director field in liquid crystal shells using block copolymers
When an orientationally ordered system, like a nematic liquid crystal (LC), is confined on a self-closing spherical shell, topological constraints arise with intriguing consequences that depend critically on how the LC is aligned in the shell. We demonstrate reversible dynamic tuning of the alignmen...
Main Authors: | JungHyun Noh, Yiwei Wang, Hsin-Ling Liang, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, Apala Majumdar, Jan P. F. Lagerwall |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2020-07-01
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Series: | Physical Review Research |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033160 |
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