ArticleNature communications2022
Splay-bend nematic phases of bent colloidal silica rods induced by polydispersity.
Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Hierarchical Chiral Self-Assembly of Nanocylinders Composed of Sequence-Defined Mesogenic Dimers.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Relationship between the Size of Bent-Shaped Molecules and Mesophase Formation: A Computational Study.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2025Article
- Pushing the Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Guided Programmable Concepts in Binary Self-Assembly of Colloidal Nanoparticles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Emergent biaxiality in chiral hybrid liquid crystals.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Achiral hard bananas assemble double-twist skyrmions and blue phases.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking in polar fluids.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Liquid crystal (LC) phases are in between solids and liquids with properties of both. Nematic LCs composed of rod-like molecules or particles exhibit long-range orientational order, yielding characteristic birefringence, but they lack positional order, allowing them to flow like a liquid. This combination of properties as well as their sensitivity to external fields make nematic LCs fundamental for optical applications e.g. liquid crystal displays (LCDs). When rod-like particles become bent, spontaneous bend deformations arise in the LC, leading to geometric frustration which can be resolved by complementary twist or splay deformations forming intriguing twist-bend (N
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