Issue 37, 2022

Annealing and melting of active two-dimensional soliton lattices in chiral nematic films

Abstract

In this work, thousands of electrically driven dissipative solitons, called directrons, are generated in a chiral nematic liquid crystal. The directrons start with random motions but soon synchronize their motions and self-organize into a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice. The directron lattice moves collectively and forms a hexatic phase. By increasing the applied voltage, the lattice exhibits a first-order hexatic-to-liquid phase transition.

Graphical abstract: Annealing and melting of active two-dimensional soliton lattices in chiral nematic films

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Jun 2022
Accepted
19 Aug 2022
First published
19 Aug 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Soft Matter, 2022,18, 7045-7050

Annealing and melting of active two-dimensional soliton lattices in chiral nematic films

Y. Shen and I. Dierking, Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 7045 DOI: 10.1039/D2SM00815G

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