Using achiral hard banana-shaped particles to assemble skyrmions and blue phases

Using achiral hard banana-shaped particles to assemble skyrmions and blue phases



A research team has discovered that Achararal Hard Banana -shaped particles can spontaneously manufacture foreign structures such as Schirmian and Blue Phase III stages. Schirmians are structures like small vortex found in various condensed-matter systems, such as scattered pheromagnets and liquid crystals. Blue Phase III is a unknown phase of liquid crystal that has strong optical activity. Acharael particles are particles that can be charged on their mirror image. The team’s findings have possible applications in photonics and memory devices.