These are highly chiral liquid crystals. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50935-4 The team used extensive particle-based simulations to demonstrate that achiral hard ...

These are highly chiral liquid crystals. The team used extensive particle-based simulations to demonstrate that achiral hard banana-shaped particles, governed solely by excluded-volume ...

Their work was published in Nature Communications ("Achiral hard bananas assemble double-twist skyrmions and blue phases"). Skyrmions typically arise from chiral interactions, that is, a molecular ...