Periodic lattices of frustrated focal conic defect domains in smectic liquid crystal films

Linear Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles Within Liquid Crystal Defect Arrays

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Smectic Liquid Crystal Defects for Self-Assembling of Building Blocks and Their Lithographic Applications

(2011) Yun Ho Kim et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Self-ordered arrays of linear defects and virtual singularities in thin smectic-A films

(2010) Bruno Zappone et al.   Soft Matter

Fabrication of a Superhydrophobic Surface from a Smectic Liquid-Crystal Defect Array

(2009) Yun Ho Kim et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Liquids with conics

(2009) M. Kleman et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Focal Conic Stacking in Smectic A Liquid Crystals: Smectic Flower and Apollonius Tiling

(2009) Claire Meyer et al.   Materials

Controlling Smectic Focal Conic Domains by Substrate Patterning

(2008) Wei Guo et al.   LANGMUIR

Surface-frustrated periodic textures of smectic-Aliquid crystals on crystalline surfaces

(2008) Bruno Zappone et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E