On the structure of blue phase III

Details On the structure of blue phase III On the structure of blue phase III

2011-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/1110.6743v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107801 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.107801

We report large scale simulations of the blue phases of cholesteric liquid crystals. Our results suggest a structure for blue phase III, the blue fog, which has been the subject of a long debate in liquid crystal physics. We propose that blue phase III is an amorphous network of disclination lines, which is thermodynamically and kinetically stabilised over crystalline blue phases at intermediate chiralities}. This amorphous network becomes ordered under an applied electric field, as seen in experiments.

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