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A chiral–racemic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal system

Published in Soft Matter, 2020

This paper is about pre-COVID laboratory work I did with Prof. Emeritus Peter J. Collings. We examined a lyotropic, chiral chromonic liquid crystal. I mixed samples of different chiral fraction and measured the pitch of the LC as a function of chiral fraction and temperature. Dr. Collings is the corresponding author on this paper, and did a majority of the writing.

Recommended citation: Ando, J.K. and Collings, P.J., 2021. A chiral–racemic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal system. Soft Matter, 17(5), pp.1409-1414. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/sm/d0sm02013c/unauth