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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Mesoscale martensitic transformation in single crystals of topological defects.

Xiao Li, José A Martínez-González, Juan P Hernández-Ortiz, Abelardo Ramírez-Hernández, Ye Zhou, Monirosadat Sadati, Rui Zhang, Paul F Nealey, Juan J de Pablo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Xiao LiInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0003-3456-1933
José A Martínez-GonzálezInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Juan P Hernández-OrtizInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0003-0404-9947
Abelardo Ramírez-HernándezInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Ye ZhouInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Monirosadat SadatiInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Rui ZhangInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Paul F NealeyInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; depablo@uchicago.edu nealey@uchicago.edu.
Juan J de PabloInstitute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; depablo@uchicago.edu nealey@uchicago.edu.
Argonne National Laboratory · USUniversity of Chicago · USUniversidad Nacional de Colombia · CO

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid-crystal blue phases (BPs) are highly ordered at two levels. Molecules exhibit orientational order at nanometer length scales, while chirality leads to ordered arrays of double-twisted cylinders over micrometer scales. Past studies of polycrystalline BPs were challenged by the existence of grain boundaries between randomly oriented crystalline nanodomains. Here, the nucleation of BPs is controlled with precision by relying on chemically nanopatterned surfaces, leading to macroscopic single-crystal BP specimens where the dynamics of mesocrystal formation can be directly observed. Theory and experiments show that transitions between two BPs having a different network structure proceed through local reorganization of the crystalline array, without diffusion of the double-twisted cylinders. In solid crystals, martensitic transformations between crystal structures involve the concerted motion of a few atoms, without diffusion. The transformation between BPs, where crystal features arise in the submicron regime, is found to be martensitic in nature when one considers the collective behavior of the double-twist cylinders. Single-crystal BPs are shown to offer fertile grounds for the study of directed crystal nucleation and the controlled growth of soft matter.

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blue phasechemical patternschiral liquid crystalsmartensitic transformationself-assembly

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PMID28874557
PMCPMC5617308
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