Using achiral hard banana-shaped particles to assemble skyrmions and blue phases
A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...
Biomimetic polymerization: Liquid crystals enable chiral polymer synthesis
By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...
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Team uses achiral hard banana-shaped particles to assemble skyrmions and blue phases
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 ...