• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Topological fine structure of smectic grain boundaries and tetratic disclination lines within three-dimensional smectic liquid crystals
  • Contributor: Monderkamp, Paul A.; Wittmann, René; te Vrugt, Michael; Voigt, Axel; Wittkowski, Raphael; Löwen, Hartmut
  • imprint: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2022
  • Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00060a
  • ISSN: 1463-9076; 1463-9084
  • Keywords: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ; General Physics and Astronomy
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  • Description: <jats:p>Coexisting nematic and tetratic order at grain boundaries in 3d smectic liquid crystals. For hard rods confined to a spherical cap (left), two planes with low nematic order (middle) are observed, bounded by tetratic line disclinations (right).</jats:p>