Elementary Edge and Screw Dislocations Visualized at the Lattice Periodicity Level in the Smectic Phase of Colloidal Rods.
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.097801
Abstract: Topological defects such as dislocations play a major role in science, from condensed matter and geophysics to cosmology. These line defects present in periodically ordered structures mediate phase transitions and determine many distinctive features of… read more here.
Keywords: phase; smectic phase; level; screw dislocations ... See more keywords