Helical Nanofilaments and the High Chirality Limit of Smectics-A

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2009-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/0909.3529v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 257804

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 3 figures, the full catastrophe

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.257804

Liquid crystalline systems exhibiting both macroscopic chirality and smectic order experience frustration resulting in mesophases possessing complex three-dimensional order. In the twist-grain-boundary phase, defect lattices mediate the propagation of twist throughout the system. We propose a new chiral smectic structure composed of a lattice of chiral bundles as a model of the helical nanofilament (B4) phase of bent core smectics.

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