Quantifying memory: detection of focal conic domain rearrangement across a phase transition
Royal Society of Chemistry
03/05/2025
10656098
10.1039/D4SM00940A
Soft Matter
1744-683X
21
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Sean HareAlexander de_la_VegaFrancesca Serra
Smectic liquid crystals are confined in undulated micro-channels. The probability that, after heating and cooling, a smectic defect will form again in the same pocket drops if the system is heated to the isotropic phase but not to the nematic phase.]]>