Here we discuss the free energy of nematic liquid crystals using two vectors and the helicity, with the aim of having a compact form of its density. The two vectors are due to the splay and bend distortions of the director field. They have a polar nature, whereas the helicity is a pseudoscalar
We report a dynamic light-scattering study of the fluctuation modes in a thermotropic liquid crystal...
The entropy formulation of the three-parameter law of corresponding states in the Holleran-Hammes fo...
Nematodynamics is the orientation dynamics of flowless liquid-crystals. We show how Euler-Poincar, r...
Here we discuss the free energy of nematic liquid crystals using two vectors and the helicity, with ...
The paper is discussing the contributions to the free energy of elastic distortions in a nematic liq...
In Landau–de Gennes theory, the free energy f of liquid crystals is expanded into powers of a symmet...
Using angular momentum representation a method is proposed that allows the systematic construction o...
The presence of the surfacelike elastic constant K13 in the expression of the elastic free-energy de...
The nematic twist-bend (TB) phase, exhibited by certain achiral thermotropic liquid crystalline (LC)...
In liquid crystal materials, the coupling between their elastic field and an external action, such a...
A free energy expression is proposed that describes the isotropic-nematic binodal concentrations of ...
International audienceExternal fields act on the order parameter, the tensor which is describing the...
We describe a general mean field model for the free energy function for a homogeneous medium of mutu...
In this paper, we propose a suitable surface energy expression for cholesteric liquid crystals. We s...
The elastic constant k13 is the coefficient of a divergence term in the free energy density and invo...
We report a dynamic light-scattering study of the fluctuation modes in a thermotropic liquid crystal...
The entropy formulation of the three-parameter law of corresponding states in the Holleran-Hammes fo...
Nematodynamics is the orientation dynamics of flowless liquid-crystals. We show how Euler-Poincar, r...
Here we discuss the free energy of nematic liquid crystals using two vectors and the helicity, with ...
The paper is discussing the contributions to the free energy of elastic distortions in a nematic liq...
In Landau–de Gennes theory, the free energy f of liquid crystals is expanded into powers of a symmet...
Using angular momentum representation a method is proposed that allows the systematic construction o...
The presence of the surfacelike elastic constant K13 in the expression of the elastic free-energy de...
The nematic twist-bend (TB) phase, exhibited by certain achiral thermotropic liquid crystalline (LC)...
In liquid crystal materials, the coupling between their elastic field and an external action, such a...
A free energy expression is proposed that describes the isotropic-nematic binodal concentrations of ...
International audienceExternal fields act on the order parameter, the tensor which is describing the...
We describe a general mean field model for the free energy function for a homogeneous medium of mutu...
In this paper, we propose a suitable surface energy expression for cholesteric liquid crystals. We s...
The elastic constant k13 is the coefficient of a divergence term in the free energy density and invo...
We report a dynamic light-scattering study of the fluctuation modes in a thermotropic liquid crystal...
The entropy formulation of the three-parameter law of corresponding states in the Holleran-Hammes fo...
Nematodynamics is the orientation dynamics of flowless liquid-crystals. We show how Euler-Poincar, r...