Textures of cholesteric droplets controlled by photo-switching chirality at the molecular level
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- 26 August 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
- Vol. 2 (38) , 8137-8141
Abstract
Ultra-sensitive detection of chirality is demonstrated experimentally by investigating photo-induced structural transitions in sessile droplets of cholesteric liquid crystals.Keywords
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