Using Landau theory, possible structures that can occur in chiral liquid crystals when the isotropic phase becomes thermodynamically unstable are analyzed. It is shown that the transition may be to a liquid crystal phase having a body-centered cubic (1432) structure rather than to the usual cholesteric (helicoidal) phase when the coefficient of the cubic term in the free energy is sufficiently small with respect to that of the chiral term. It is conjectured that this bcc structure characterizes the cholesteric blue phase. Arguments supporting this suggestion as well as the difficulties it presents are discussed.Quelques structures possibles des cristaux liquides chiraux, lorsque la phase isotrope est thermodynamiquement instable, sont analy...
Building a general theoretical framework to describe the microscopic origin of macroscopic chirality...
Building a general theoretical framework to describe the microscopic origin of macroscopic chirality...
Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple choleste...
Using Landau theory, possible structures that can occur in chiral liquid crystals when the isotropic...
We study the static properties of cubic blue phases by numerically minimizing the three-dimensional,...
Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple choleste...
We investigate the statistical mechanics of chirality and biaxiality in liquid crystals through a va...
Polarizing microscopy and optical-activity measurements are used to determine the phase diagram for ...
We investigate the statistical mechanics of chirality and biaxiality in liquid crystals through a va...
We report large scale simulations of the blue phases of cholesteric liquid crystals. Our results sug...
The phases of liquid crystals In 1888, while cooling liquid cholesteric benzoate, Reinitzer [8] repo...
We employ Monte Carlo simulations in a specialized isothermal-isobaric and in the grand canonical en...
In a previous article [Phys. Rev. E 60, 1799 (1999)], the authors considered a model Landau free ene...
Experimental evidence for a Blue Phase of hexagonal symmetry is reported. In agreement with a theore...
International audienceWe report a computer simulation study of the phase transitional behaviorof a s...
Building a general theoretical framework to describe the microscopic origin of macroscopic chirality...
Building a general theoretical framework to describe the microscopic origin of macroscopic chirality...
Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple choleste...
Using Landau theory, possible structures that can occur in chiral liquid crystals when the isotropic...
We study the static properties of cubic blue phases by numerically minimizing the three-dimensional,...
Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple choleste...
We investigate the statistical mechanics of chirality and biaxiality in liquid crystals through a va...
Polarizing microscopy and optical-activity measurements are used to determine the phase diagram for ...
We investigate the statistical mechanics of chirality and biaxiality in liquid crystals through a va...
We report large scale simulations of the blue phases of cholesteric liquid crystals. Our results sug...
The phases of liquid crystals In 1888, while cooling liquid cholesteric benzoate, Reinitzer [8] repo...
We employ Monte Carlo simulations in a specialized isothermal-isobaric and in the grand canonical en...
In a previous article [Phys. Rev. E 60, 1799 (1999)], the authors considered a model Landau free ene...
Experimental evidence for a Blue Phase of hexagonal symmetry is reported. In agreement with a theore...
International audienceWe report a computer simulation study of the phase transitional behaviorof a s...
Building a general theoretical framework to describe the microscopic origin of macroscopic chirality...
Building a general theoretical framework to describe the microscopic origin of macroscopic chirality...
Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple choleste...