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Photopatterned Designer Disclination Networks in Nematic Liquid Crystals (Advanced Optical Materials 16/2021)
Author(s) -
Guo Yubing,
Jiang Miao,
Afghah Sajedeh,
Peng Chenhui,
Selinger Robin L. B.,
Lavrentovich Oleg D.,
Wei QiHuo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.202170063
Subject(s) - disclination , materials science , liquid crystal , orientation (vector space) , optics , holography , cover (algebra) , optoelectronics , physics , geometry , mechanical engineering , mathematics , engineering
In article number 2100181, Qi‐Huo Wei and co‐workers demonstrate a versatile approach to designing complex networks of disclinations and their generation with a plasmonic photopatterning technique. The disclinations can be either suspended with preprogrammed shape and lattices, or anchored on substrates interconnecting predesigned sites. The cover image is a polarizing optical microscopic picture of some suspended disclination lines and loops and corresponding molecular orientation patterns at two confining glass substrates.