New paper out: Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Polydisperse Achiral Near-Rigid Nematogens

Another INTEGRATE article has just been published.

The paper by W. S. Fall and H. H. Wensink explores how chiral structures can emerge spontaneously in soft-matter systems even when the building blocks themselves are not chiral. Using molecular simulations, the authors show that flexibility, fluctuations and length dispersity in nanorods can drive spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and the formation of twisted nematic phases.

This work, previously presented at 9th International Soft Matter Conference (October 2025), is now published and available.

Read the full article here