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@ARTICLE{Garlea:868441,
      author       = {Garlea, Ioana C. and Dammone, Oliver and Alvarado, Jose and
                      Nooteboom, Valerie and Jia, Yunfei and Koenderink, Gijsje H.
                      and Aarts, Dirk G. A. L. and Lettinga, M. P. and Mulder,
                      Bela M.},
      title        = {{C}olloidal {L}iquid {C}rystals {C}onfinedto {S}ynthetic
                      {T}actoids},
      journal      = {Scientific reports},
      volume       = {9},
      issn         = {2045-2322},
      address      = {[London]},
      publisher    = {Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2020-00035},
      pages        = {20391},
      year         = {2019},
      abstract     = {When a liquid crystal forming particles are confined to a
                      spatial volume with dimensions comparable to that of their
                      own size, they face a complex trade-off between their global
                      tendency to align and the local constraints imposed by the
                      boundary conditions. This interplay may lead to a
                      non-trivial orientational patterns that strongly depend on
                      the geometry of the confining volume. This novel regime of
                      liquid crystalline behavior can be probed with colloidal
                      particles that are macro-aggregates of biomolecules. Here we
                      study director fields of filamentous fd-viruses in quasi-2D
                      lens-shaped chambers that mimic the shape of tactoids, the
                      nematic droplets that form during isotropic-nematic phase
                      separation. By varying the size and aspect ratio of the
                      chambers we force these particles into confinements that
                      vary from circular to extremely spindle-like shapes and
                      observe the director field using fluorescence microscopy. In
                      the resulting phase diagram, next to configurations
                      predicted earlier for 3D tactoids, we find a number of novel
                      configurations. Using Monte Carlo Simulations, we show that
                      these novel states are metastable, yet long-lived. Their
                      multiplicity can be explained by the co-existence of
                      multiple dynamic relaxation pathways leading to the final
                      stable states},
      cin          = {ICS-3},
      ddc          = {600},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-3-20110106},
      pnm          = {551 - Functional Macromolecules and Complexes (POF3-551)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-551},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      pubmed       = {pmid:31892707},
      UT           = {WOS:000508985300012},
      doi          = {10.1038/s41598-019-56729-9},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/868441},
}