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Nature. 2019 Dec;576(7787):433-436. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1809-8. Epub 2019 Dec 18.

Molecular heterogeneity drives reconfigurable nematic liquid crystal drops.

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Wei-Shao Wei, Yu Xia, Sophie Ettinger, Shu Yang, A G Yodh

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [email protected].
  2. Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [email protected].
  3. Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 31853082 PMCID: PMC6927531 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1809-8

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