• DOI:10.1038/nature03932
Corpus ID: 4307675

Liquid crystal ‘blue phases’ with a wide temperature range

@article{Coles2005LiquidC,
  title={Liquid crystal ‘blue phases’ with a wide temperature range},
  author={H. Coles and M. N. Pivnenko},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2005},
  volume={436},
  pages={997-1000}
}

H. Coles, M. N. Pivnenko

Published 2005

Materials Science, Medicine

Nature

Liquid crystal ‘blue phases’ are highly fluid self-assembled three-dimensional cubic defect structures that exist over narrow temperature ranges in highly chiral liquid crystals. The characteristic period of these defects is of the order of the wavelength of visible light, and they give rise to vivid specular reflections that are controllable with external fields. Blue phases may be considered as examples of tuneable photonic crystals with many potential applications. The disadvantage of these… CONTINUE READING

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