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Nematic–isotropic phase transitions in thin slabs of liquid crystals with topological defect arrays

Published:2023 Issue:45 Volume:19 Page:8863-8870
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Chen Hao¹,Jiang Miao¹,Guo Yubing²,Chaganava Irakli³,Wei Qi-Huo¹⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China

2. School of Medical Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

3. Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Technical University, 5 Sandro Euli Str., 0186 Tbilisi, Georgia

4. Center for Complex Flows and Soft Matter Research, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Abstract

This paper studies the nematic-to-isotropic phase transitions in thin slabs of nematic liquid crystals with photopatterned topological defect arrays and show how they are impacted by both the heating rate and the topological strengths of these defects.

Funder

Shenzhen Technology Development Program

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2023/SM/D3SM01156A

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