Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Microfluidic control over topological states in channel-confined nematic flows

  • Simon Čopar,
  • Žiga Kos,
  • Tadej Emeršič,
  • Uroš Tkalec

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13789-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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It is interesting phenomenon that chiral order can emerge in intrinsically achiral liquid crystals. Here Čopar et al. demonstrate achiral-to-chiral transition of the nematic liquid crystals flow in microfluidic channels and their behaviour, stability, and dependence on geometric and material parameters.