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Illustration of Directed Assembly of Liquid Crystal Defects

Caption: By changing the geometry at the bottom layer of a stack of liquid crystals, the researchers were able to get much finer control of the features in the top layer than has previously been possible.

Credit: Felice Macera, Daniel Beller, Apiradee Honglawan, Simon Čopar

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