Chirality in Liquid Crystals: from Microscopic Origins to Macroscopic Structure

Details Chirality in Liquid Crystals: from Microscopic Origins to Macroscopic Structure Chirality in Liquid Crystals: from Microscopic Origins to Macroscopic Structure

1997-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9710349v1

Ferroelectrics 212 (1998) 1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

20 pages with 6 epsf figures

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Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple cholesteric phase to the twist-grain-boundary phases, and it is responsible for interesting and technologically important materials like ferroelectric liquid crystals. This paper will review some recent advances in our understanding of the connection between the chiral geometry of individual molecules and the important phenomenological parameters that determine macroscopic chiral structure. It will then consider chiral structure in columnar systems and propose a new equilibrium phase consisting of a regular lattice of twisted ropes.

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