ArticleScience advances2020
Prolate and oblate chiral liquid crystal spheroids.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Experimental Insight into Thermally Driven Structural Evolution and Metastable Dynamics of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Morphological changes in smectic liquid crystal microstructures.Soft matter · 2026Article
- Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept.Light, science & applications · 2024Article
- Functional soft materials from blue phase liquid crystals.Science advances · 2023Review
- Pancharatnam-Berry phase reversal via opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures.Light, science & applications · 2022Article
- Polymer-Dispersed Cholesteric Liquid Crystal under Homeotropic Anchoring: Electrically Induced Structures withPolymers · 2022Article
- On Using the BMCSL Equation of State to Renormalize the Onsager Theory Approach to Modeling Hard Prolate Spheroidal Liquid Crystal Mixtures.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Polymer Dispersed Cholesteric Liquid Crystals With a Toroidal Director Configuration under an Electric Field.Polymers · 2021Article
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Abstract
Liquid crystals are known to exhibit intriguing textures and color patterns, with applications in display and optical technologies. This work focuses on chiral materials and examines the palette of morphologies that arises when microdroplets are deformed into nonspherical shapes in a controllable manner. Specifically, geometrical confinement and mechanical strain are used to manipulate orientational order, phase transitions, and topological defects that arise in chiral liquid crystal droplets. Inspired by processes encountered in nature, where insects and animals often rely on strain and temperature to alter the optical appearance of dispersed liquid crystalline elements, chiral droplets are dispersed in polymer films and deformation induced by uniaxial or biaxial stretching. Our measurements are interpreted by resorting to simulations of the corresponding systems, thereby providing an in-depth understanding of the morphologies that arise in these materials. The reported structures and assemblies offer potential for applications in smart coatings, smart fabrics, and wearable sensors.
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