Fig. 8: Rod orientational probability in hybrid LCs. | Nature Communications

Fig. 8: Rod orientational probability in hybrid LCs.

From: Emergent biaxiality in chiral hybrid liquid crystals

Fig. 8

Unit-sphere projections of the predicted orientational distribution of thin rods dispersed in (a, top row) chiral or (b, bottom row) non-chiral LCs. Empirical values of cholesteric pitch p = 30 μm and ΔFtwist = 22.1kBT are used for the chiral cases in (a) with Lc = 1.7 μm and Dc = 28 nm used for all calculations. The surface anchoring coefficients are marked for each column.

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