Smectic microstructure of a two-dimensional planar boundary in a 3D simulation. The intersection of smectic layers and the section forms sets of concentric circles. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Weirdest Martensite: Smectic Liquid Crystal Microstructure and Weyl-Poincaré Invariance
Danilo B. Liarte, Matthew Bierbaum, Ricardo A. Mosna, Randall D. Kamien, and James P. Sethna
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147802 (2016)

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