Fig. 6
From: Morphing of liquid crystal surfaces by emergent collectivity
Stages II–III: Network plasticization and deformation. a In a homeotropic LCN (orange line), the emergence of concerted mesogen dynamics (stage II) leads to efficient surface motility (stage III), whereas an isotropic network (dark grey line) lacks the final deformation stage. b Peak motility in stage III (blue triangles, left ordinate) and % height change measured by DHM (magenta bullets, right ordinate) versus field frequency. Both techniques show an increase in surface expansion with increasing ffield, yet the relatively lower noise level of LSI compared to DHM (dashed lines) allows probing over an order-of-magnitude lower field frequencies (down to ~40 kHz versus ~800 kHz). c Field frequency sweep from 0 to 900 kHz at 0.9 kHz s−1 for a homeotropic network (orange line) and isotropic network (dark grey line), confirming the extraordinarily high displacement sensitivity of LSI
