Henrich, O;
Stratford, K;
Cates, ME;
Marenduzzo, D;
(2011)
Structure of Blue Phase III of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.
Physical Review Letters
, 106
(10)
, Article 107801. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.107801.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Structure of Blue Phase III of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.107801 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.107801 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2011 American Physical Society |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1329455 |
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