Reversal in Thermally Driven Rotation of Chiral Liquid Crystal Droplets

S Takano, T Nakanishi, K Nakagawa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
For chiral liquid crystals that express topologically protected defects and thermally driven
mechanical rotation, the size-and temperature-driven reversal of the rotational direction of …

Propagation of periodic director and flow patterns in a cholesteric liquid crystal under electroconvection

J Yoshioka, H Nobori, K Fukao, F Araoka - 2024 - researchsquare.com
The electroconvection of liquid crystals is a typical example of a dissipative structure
generated by complicated interactions between three factors: convective flow, structural …