ArticleACS central science2020
Periodic Arrays of Chiral Domains Generated from the Self-Assembly of Micropatterned Achiral Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal.
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- Spatial Control of Chiral Self-Assembly and Lithographic Applications in Liquid Crystal Polymer Network.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
- Fabrication of Chiral Liquid Crystal Pinwheel Arrays Through Capillarity-Assisted Particle Assembly.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Confinement-induced chirality in phase-separated achiral polymer solutions.Science advances · 2025Article
- Flow-induced periodic chiral structures in an achiral nematic liquid crystal.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Structures and topological defects in pressure-driven lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Design of Chiral Domains by Surface Confinement of Liquid Crystals.ACS central science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Achiral building blocks forming achiral structures is a common occurrence in nature, while chirality emerging spontaneously from an achiral system is usually associated with important scientific phenomena. We report on the spontaneous chiral symmetry-breaking phenomena upon the topographic confinement of achiral lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals in periodically arranged micrometer scale air pillars. The anisotropic fluid arranges into chiral domains that depend on the arrangement and spacing of the pillars. We characterize the resulting domains by polarized optical microscopy, support their reconstruction by numerical calculations, and extend the findings with experiments, which include chiral dopants. Well-controlled and addressed chiral structures will be useful in potential applications like programmable scaffolds for living liquid crystals and as sensors for detecting chirality at the molecular level.
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