Confinement twists achiral liquid crystals and causes chiral liquid crystals to twist in the opposite handedness: Cases in and around sessile droplets

Jungmyung Kim, Joonwoo Jeong

We study the chiral symmetry breaking and metastability of confined nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (LCLC) with and without chiral dopants. The isotropic-nematic coexist…