Fusion and fission of particle-like chiral nematic vortex knots
Materials and sample preparation The chiral LC mixture used was prepared from 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl (5CB, EM Chemicals), doped with…
Monopole-mediated light control of half skyrmion topology in nematic liquid crystals
Creation of topological monopole-antimonopole pairs in half skyrmions Topological defects, which are a necessary result of broken continuous…
Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons
Chaikin, P. M. & Lubensky, T. C. Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). Yeh, P.…
Ferri- and ferro-electric switching in spontaneously chiral polar liquid crystals
Materials Table 1 shows the chemical structures and phases transitions of the materials presented here. Details of chemical synthesis…
Maximized circularly polarized luminescence from metal clusters accelerates chiral photopolymerization
Chiroptical properties of discrete (S/R)-Ag6 clusters (stage I) The construction of atomically precise metal clusters with CPL by…