Programming emergent symmetries with saddle-splay elasticity
- Submitting institution
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Sheffield Hallam University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 2795
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-019-13012-9
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- ARTN 5104
- First page
- 5104
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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7
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper describes a collaboration in which Prof Cleaver’s expertise was sought by two NSF-funded programmes (DMR-1654283 and DMR-1720530), the latter from the world-leading Materials Research Center at UPenn, USA. As well as giving a new route to measuring the saddle-splay elastic constant, the paper includes demonstration of a novel liquid crystal switching mechanism, for which a patent application was lodged (WO/2020/180922) with Cleaver as one of the named inventors.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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