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Mathematical Modelling of Smectic Liquid Crystals
Liquid crystals have received substantial research interest over the last century, especially when their beneficial applications such as liquid crystal displays were realised and developed. The changes to the molecular structure of liquid crystals can have a significant effect upon their synthesis …
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Investigating the orientational order in smectic liquid crystals.
… subsequently leads to the discovery of a novel Smectic-C liquid crystal phase. The 10OHFBBB1M7 (10OHF) compound shows a reversed phase sequence with the SmC∗ d4 phase occurring at a higher temperature than the SmC∗ phase. This phase sequence is stabilized by moderate doping of 9OTBBB1M7 (C9) or …
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MONODOMAIN SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS OF MEMBRANE LIPID WITH MODEL ION CHANNELS
… patterns and orthoscopic images. The smectic defects which appeared during the alignment process were identified and dissolved. The incorporation of gramicidin in the multilayers in the form of the transmembrane channels was proven by its circular dichroism spectra (CD). The well …
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High-Resolution X-Ray and AC Calorimetric Studies of Smectic Liquid Crystals
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Theoretical studies of smectic liquid crystals in the presence of flow, oscillatory perturbations, and edge dislocations
… regarding the static and dynamic behaviour of smectic liquid crystals will be presented. The thesis is mainly concerned with the smectic A phase as modelled by the continuum theory of Stewart, though a working knowledge of the smectic C phase, modelled using the Leslie-Stewart-Nakagawa …
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Aspects Of Nucleation: Fluctuations, Nonuniform Order, And Curved Surfaces
… of the Euclidean group: broken translations for crystals and broken rotations for vector-like order. There are even more exotic states of matter such as smectic liquid crystals and diblock copolymers which manifest states that have fewer broken translations in a given dimension than would be …
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Theory of phase transitions in liquid crystals and plastic crystals
The properties of the layered, or smectic, liquid crystals are explained in terms of progressive freezing-out of rotational and translational degrees of freedom within each smectic plane. McMillan's dipole-dipole interaction model is extended to include intermolecular repulsions. In the …
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Investigation of a Design Strategy For Liquid Crystals with De Vries-Like Properties
Ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) have been investigated as the basis for a new type of liquid crystal display because of their fast switching times. In applications the layer contraction at the smectic A-smectic C transition is a severe problem that leads to buckling of the smectic layers and …