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SOFT MATTER
卷 10, 期 26, 页码 4700-4710出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm00803k
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- NSF through MRSEC [0820492]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0820492] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Monodisperse suspensions of rod like chiral fd viruses are condensed into a rod-length thick colloidal monolayers of aligned rods by depletion forces. Twist deformations of the molecules are expelled to the monolayer edge as in a chiral smectic A liquid crystal, and a cholesteric band forms at the edge. Coalescence of two such isolated membranes results in a twist wall sandwiched between two regions of aligned rods, dubbed pi-walls. By modeling the membrane as a binary fluid of coexisting cholesteric and chiral smectic A liquid-crystalline regions, we develop a unified theory of the pi-walls and the monolayer edge. The mean-field analysis of our model yields the molecular tilt profiles, the local thickness change, and the crossover from smectic to cholesteric behavior at the monolayer edge and across the pi-wall. Furthermore, we calculate the line tension associated with the formation of these interfaces. Our model offers insights regarding the stability and the detailed structure of the pi-wall and the monolayer edge.
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