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3D knots appear in liquid crystals

26 Sep 2019 Isabelle Dumé
A crystal of knots
Schematic of a crystal of knots. Credit: Jung-Shen B. Tai and Ivan I. Smalyukh
Molecular self-assembly can produce stable 3D knots in chiral liquid crystals. The knots, which have

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