Symmetries and defects in liquid crystals: Arceauetetrahedraearceau
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To honor Yves Bouligand, champion of new ideas, complexity and living systems, I give a brief overview of our recent discovery of a biaxial Bouligand arceau in achiral tetrahedratic banana liquid crystals. To cite this article: P. Elizabeth Cladis, C. R. Chimie 11 (2008). 2008 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS on behalf of Académie des sciences.
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