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Electric-field-induced shape transition of nematic tactoids
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The occurrence of new textures of liquid crystals is an important factor in tuning their optical and photonics properties. Here, we show, both experimentally and by numerical computation, that under an electric field chitin tactoids (i.e. nematic droplets) can stretch to aspect ratios of more than 15, leading to a transition from a spindle-like to a cigar-like shape. We argue that the large extensions occur because the elastic contribution to the free energy is dominated by the anchoring. We ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.022706
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French National Research Agency
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Physical Review E Journal website
- Volume:
- 96
- Pages:
- 022706
- Publication date:
- 2017-08-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-10
- DOI:
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2470-0053
- ISSN:
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2470-0045
- Source identifiers:
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724381
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pubs:724381
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uuid:3995f25d-89d2-4d14-9f89-d8bd84081844
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- pubs:724381
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- 2017-08-27
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- American Physical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 American Physical Society
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