Lyotropic Liquid Crystals: The Emergence of Chiral Structures

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Abstract

Crystallization of tartrates by Pasteur provided the first glimpse of spontaneous mirror-symmetry breaking, and that led to the foundation of stereochemistry as a discipline. A consequence of mirror-symmetry breaking is optical activity, and since the time of its discovery by Biot in the early 1800s, has fascinated scientist. Since those early studies, the appearance of macroscopic chirality from both chiral and achiral molecules has been of interest. In this talk, we discuss the appearance of macroscopic chiral structures from a class of liquid crystals, referred to as lyotropic liquid crystals under various conditions.

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Presenters

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology

Authors

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Kathik Nayani

    School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jung Ok Park

    Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jinxin Fu

    School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Rui Chang

    School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology