Curvature directed anchoring and defect structure of colloidal smectic liquid crystals in confinement

Ethan I. L. Jull, Gerardo Campos-Villalobos, Qianjing Tang +2

Rod-like objects at high packing fractions can form smectic phases, where the rods break rotational and translational symmetry by forming lamellae. Smectic defects thereby include…