Entropy-driven formation of chiral nematic phases by computer simulations
Entropy-driven formation of chiral nematic phases by computer simulations
Predicting the macroscopic chiral behaviour of cholesteric liquid crystals from the microscopic chirality of the particles is highly non-trivial, even when the chiral interactions are purely entropic in nature. Here we introduce a novel chiral hard-particle model, namely particles with a twisted polyhedral shape and obtain, for the first time, …