Fig. 6.

(A) Schematic of the Ch-CNC droplet loaded with NPs. (B) Illustration of the periodic director structure along the ${\chi }^{+1}$-disclination and the resulting periodic array of NP inclusions in the regions that yield predominantly tangential anchoring at the inclusion surface (shown as blue beads). In A the concentric shells represent the Ch-CNC layers and the black line represents the disclination. In A and B, the blue spheres represent the NP-rich regions and the red whisker-like features in B represent the CNCs.