Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking and chiral segregation in the achiral ferronematic compound DIO-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking and chiral segregation in the achiral ferronematic compound DIO

Published:2023 Issue:13 Volume:25 Page:9083-9091
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Yadav Neelam¹,Panarin Yuri P.²,Jiang Wanhe³,Mehl Georg H.³^ORCID,Vij Jagdish K.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, TU Dublin, Dublin 7, Ireland

3. Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

Abstract

We observe chiral domains in the paraelectric nematic phase of a chemically achiral ferronematic. This behaviour is due to spontaneous symmetry breaking arising from saddle splay elasticity and helical segregation, the first example of this observation.

Funder

Irish Research Council

Science Foundation Ireland

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2023/CP/D3CP00357D

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