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A change in stripes for cholesteric shells via anchoring in moderation
Lisa Tran, Maxim O. Lavrentovich, Guillaume Durey +7
Chirality, ubiquitous in complex biological systems, can be controlled and quantified in synthetic materials such as cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) systems. In this work, we stud…
Elastic interactions between topological defects in chiral nematic shells
Alexandre Darmon, Olivier Dauchot, Teresa Lopez-Leon +1
We present a novel, self-consistent and robust theoretical model to investigate elastic interactions between topological defects in liquid crystal shells. Accounting for the non-co…
Topological defects in cholesteric liquid crystal shells
Alexandre Darmon, Michael Benzaquen, Simon Čopar +2
We investigate experimentally and numerically the defect configurations emerging when a cholesteric liquid crystal is confined to a spherical shell. We uncover a rich scenario of d…
Waltzing route towards double-helix formation in cholesteric shells
Alexandre Darmon, Michael Benzaquen, Olivier Dauchot +1
We study cholesteric order in liquid crystal shells with planar degenerate anchoring. We observe that the bipolar and radial configurations intensively reported for bulk droplets h…
Spherical nematics with a threefold valence
Vinzenz Koning, Teresa Lopez-Leon, Alexandre Darmon +2
We present a theoretical study of the energetics of thin nematic shells with two charge one-half defects and one charge-one defect. We determine the optimal arrangement: the defect…