Ettinger, Sophie; Dietrich, Clarissa F.; Mishra, Chandan K.; Miksch, Cornelia; Beller, Daniel A.; Collings, Peter J.; Yodh, A. G.
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022-12)
In lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs), twist distortion of the nematic director costs much less energy than splay or bend distortion. This feature leads to novel mirror-symmetry breaking director configurations ...