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2:45 PM - 3:00 PM JST(5:45 AM - 6:00 AM UTC)Presentation by Applicant for JSAP Young Scientists Presentation Award

[22p-D901-4]Liquid Crystallinity of Insect Elytra and Discovery of Micro-Maltese Cross Array

〇Kyoka Komaba¹, Reiji Kumai², Hiromasa Goto¹ (1.U. Tsukuba, 2.KEK IMSS)

Keywords:

elytra,liquid crystallinity,Maltese cross

Insect elytra showed liquid crystallinity from the observation of optical microscopy. Maltese crosses, which are found in synthetic liquid crystal molecules, were observed. Depending on the type of insects, the Maltese cross were oriented or randomly existed. Synchrotron XRD measurements revealed the existence of various periodic higher ordered structures.

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