(Nanowerk News) A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny ...

Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50935-4 The team used extensive particle-based simulations to demonstrate that achiral hard banana-shaped particles, governed solely ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like ...