ArticleScience advances2019
Sculpted grain boundaries in soft crystals.
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- Room temperature molding of amorphous dielectrics via van der Waals anisotropy at the nanoscale.Nature communications · 2026Article
- All-optical 3D blue phase photonic crystal switch with photosensitive dopants.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Diffusionless transformation of soft cubic superstructure from amorphous to simple cubic and body-centered cubic phases.Nature communications · 2021Article
- 3D Chiral Photonic Nanostructures Based on Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals.Small science · 2021Article
- Orientation control of ideal blue phase photonic crystals.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Engineering the grain boundaries of crystalline materials represents an enduring challenge, particularly in the case of soft materials. Grain boundaries, however, can provide preferential sites for chemical reactions, adsorption processes, nucleation of phase transitions, and mechanical transformations. In this work, "soft heteroepitaxy" is used to exert precise control over the lattice orientation of three-dimensional liquid crystalline soft crystals, thereby granting the ability to sculpt the grain boundaries between them. Since these soft crystals are liquid-like in nature, the heteroepitaxy approach introduced here provides a clear strategy to accurately mold liquid-liquid interfaces in structured liquids with a hitherto unavailable level of precision.
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