Programming emergent symmetries with saddle-splay elasticity

Liquid crystals are used for devices with increasingly complex geometries which makes it important to understand the influence of deformation. Xia et al. measure the poorly investigated saddle-splay elastic constant by means of surface patterning and simulation for programming emergent symmetries.

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Main Authors: Yu Xia, Andrew A. DeBenedictis, Dae Seok Kim, Shenglan Chen, Se-Um Kim, Douglas J. Cleaver, Timothy J. Atherton, Shu Yang
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/d2f3168c0b3e411d8add45b3687314eb
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