The liquid-crystalline smectic blue phases

Details The liquid-crystalline smectic blue phases The liquid-crystalline smectic blue phases

2003-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310285v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

Smectic blue phases (BPSm) are new mesophases of thermotropic liquid crystals, which exhibit a double geometrical frustration: the extension of chirality in three spatial dimensions like the classical blue phases, and helical twist competing with smectic order, as in the TGB phases. The existence of a quasi-long range smectic order in BPSm phases breaks the cubic symmetry of classical blue phases. The symmetries of these new phases have been determined by X-ray scattering and optical polarizing microscopy experiments.

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