Emergence and stabilization of transient twisted defect structures in confined achiral liquid crystals at a phase transition
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Affiliation:
1. Johns Hopkins University
2. Dept. Physics and Astronomy
3. Baltimore
4. USA
5. University of California
6. Merced
7. Dept. Physics
Abstract
We report a transient twist observed in common thermotropic, achiral liquid crystals at the transition between the smectic and the nematic phase. This is explained with the combined effect of the change of the elastic constants at the phase transition and of the confining geometry.
Funder
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry
Link
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/SM/D0SM02040K
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