2 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Molecular chirality controls droplet division and helical fiber formation in liquid crystal emulsions
Simon Čopar, Mariana V. M. Rodriguez, Peter Marinko +9
Molecular chirality is a source of broken mirror symmetry, but using it to control mesoscale structures with a tunable length scale remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate that a…
cond-mat.soft2020
Dynamic tuning of the director field in liquid crystal shells using block copolymers
JungHyun Noh, Yiwei Wang, Hsin-Ling Liang +4
When a nematic liquid crystal (LC) is confined on a self-closing spherical shell, topological constraints arise with intriguing consequences that depend critically on how the LC is…