@article{bc4576f8c38f45d5889168c0690242bd,
title = "Steady rigid-body rotation of cholesteric droplets and their dumbbell-shaped aggregates driven by heat flux along the helical axes",
abstract = "We investigated the steady unidirectional rotation of cholesteric (Ch) droplets driven by a heat flux. The droplets coexisted with the isotropic (Iso) phase and possessed a helical molecular arrangement. When a heat flux was transported along the helical axis, the droplets and their dumbbell-shaped aggregates exhibited steady rigid rotation. Our results are in contrast with those of previous reports in which Ch droplets in the same geometry exhibited pure director rotation. The fact that Ch droplets and their aggregates prefer rigid rotation can be ascribed to the orientational elasticity combined with the anchoring force at the Ch-Iso interface, which locks the director to the rotational flow in the droplets.",
author = "Katsu Nishiyama and Shinji Bono and Yuka Tabe",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are grateful to Professor Koji Okano of The University of Tokyo, Professor Hiroshi Yokoyama of Kent State University, and Professor Helmut R. Brand of Bayreuth University for valuable comments and discussions. The authors are also grateful to Professor Ken Ishikawa of Tokyo Institute of Technology for his helpful support regarding the experimental technique. The authors would like to thank Professor Isa Nishiyama of Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology for his generous gift of the tracer particles and the nematic compounds. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021.",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1039/d1sm01524a",
language = "English",
volume = "17",
pages = "10818--10828",
journal = "Soft Matter",
issn = "1744-683X",
publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry",
number = "48",
}