Emergence and stabilization of transient twisted defect structures in confined achiral liquid crystals at a phase transition
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چکیده
We report a transient twist observed in common thermotropic, achiral liquid crystals at the transition between smectic and nematic phase. This is explained with combined effect of change elastic constants phase confining geometry.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Soft Matter
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1744-683X', '1744-6848']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sm02040k