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SUBMITTER: Sasaki Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5103064 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20161107
Topological defects in nematic liquid crystals are ubiquitous. The defects are important in understanding the fundamental properties of the systems, as well as in practical applications, such as colloidal self-assembly, optical vortex generation and templates for molecular self-assembly. Usually, spatially and temporally stable defects require geometrical frustration imposed by surfaces; otherwise, the system relaxes because of the high cost of the elastic energy. So far, multiple defects are ke ...[more]