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Singular Twist Waves in Chromonic Liquid Crystals
Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga
Chromonic liquid crystals are lyotropic nematic phases whose applications span from food to drug industries. It has recently been suggested that the elastic energy density governin…
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Inversion Ring in Chromonic Twisted Hedgehogs: Theory and Experiment
Federica Ciuchi, Maria Penelope De Santo, Silvia Paparini +2
Twisted hedgehogs are defects in spherical cavities with homeotropic anchoring for the nematic director that arise when twist distortions are sufficiently less energetic than splay…