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Fig. 6

From: Topology-dependent self-structure mediation and efficient energy conversion in heat-flux-driven rotors of cholesteric droplets

Fig. 6

State diagram of Type-E under the temperature gradient. The droplet sub-types are plotted in the plane of (j-2R). The chiral content was 2.0 wt%. In the small j regions, only Type-E1 (squares) and Type-E2 (triangles) appear and show HIR without texture change (Video 4a in Supplementary Materials). However, by increasing j, Type-E2 is destabilised and transformed into Type-E3 (circles) (Supplementary Movie 8). In the region between Type-E1/E2 and Type-E3, a chaotic turbulent texture was continually observed (unstable state, asterisks)

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