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SUBMITTER: Porenta T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4256655 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Porenta T T Copar S S Ackerman P J PJ Pandey M B MB Varney M C M MC Smalyukh I I II Žumer S S
Scientific reports 20141205
Metastable configurations formed by defects, inclusions, elastic deformations and topological solitons in liquid crystals are a promising choice for building photonic crystals and metamaterials with a potential for new optical applications. Local optical modification of the director or introduction of colloidal inclusions into a moderately chiral nematic liquid crystal confined to a homeotropic cell creates localized multistable chiral solitons. Here we induce solitons that "dress" the dispersed ...[more]