Petit Garrido, NúriaTrivedi, Rahul P.Sagués i Mestre, FrancescIgnés i Mullol, JordiSmalyukh, I.2019-02-012019-02-012014-05-281744-683Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/127825Unless stabilized by colloids or confinement with well-defined boundary conditions, defects in liquid crystals remain elusive short-lived objects that tend to disappear with time to minimize the medium's free energy. In this work we use multimodal three-dimensional imaging to visualize cholesteric director structures to show that self-assembled chiral molecular monolayer domains can stabilize topologically constrained defect configurations when in contact with a cholesteric liquid crystal. The cholesteric liquid crystal, having features of both coarse-grained lamellar and nematic liquid crystal with chiral symmetry breaking, allows us to explore the interplay of chirality and implications of layering on the formed defects and director configurations.8 p.application/pdfeng(c) Petit-Garrido, Núria et al., 2014Cristalls líquidsCol·loidesMembranes (Biologia)Liquid crystalsColloidsMembranes (Biology)info:eu-repo/semantics/article6447472019-02-01info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess