Diffusionless transformation of soft cubic superstructure from amorphous to simple cubic and body-centered cubic phases

Autor: Jie Liu, Wenzhe Liu, Bo Guan, Bo Wang, Lei Shi, Feng Jin, Zhigang Zheng, Jingxia Wang, Tomiki Ikeda, Lei Jiang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23631-w
Popis: The arrangements of defect lines in liquid crystal blue phases provide promising templates for photonic crystals. Here Liu et al. investigate in detail how inter-phase transitions proceed, by intercepting nucleation with on-demand cross linking of a supporting polymer matrix.
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