Featured Liquid Crystal Picture Art of the Month
March 2024
©Priyanka Kumari
Domain walls shaped as conics in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals
Description
The picture represents that domain walls in the absence of bulk and surface aligning axes adopt the shape of conic sections such as parabola and hyperbola. The conics bisect the angle between two neighboring polarization fields to avoid electric charges. This is a polarizing optical microscopy image of a film of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, DIO, onto the surface of glycerin, film thickness ≈ 6 µm, temperature T = 60 °C.
You may also include the link the link https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36326-1 which has a detailed discussion on the selected texture.
You may also include the link the link https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36326-1 which has a detailed discussion on the selected texture.
Author
Research Group website: http://www.lavrentovichgroup.com/research.html
Email: pkumari1(at)kent.edu
Jury comment
The equilibrated combination of colors and shadows together with the texture introduced by the defects aesthetically portrays the beauty of the science of liquid crystals.
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