• DOI:10.1038/nature04034
Corpus ID: 4432184

Optical isotropy and iridescence in a smectic ‘blue phase’

@article{Yamamoto2005OpticalIA,
  title={Optical isotropy and iridescence in a smectic ‘blue phase’},
  author={J. Yamamoto and I. Nishiyama and M. Inoue and H. Yokoyama},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2005},
  volume={437},
  pages={525-528}
}

J. Yamamoto, I. Nishiyama, +1 author H. Yokoyama

Published 2005

Materials Science, Medicine

Nature

When liquid crystal molecules are chiral, the twisted structure competes with spatially uniform liquid crystalline orders, resulting in a variety of modulated liquid crystal phases, such as the cholesteric blue phase, twist grain boundary and smectic blue phases. Here we report a liquid crystal smectic blue phase (SmBPiso), formed from a two-component mixture containing a chiral monomer and a ‘twin’ containing two repeat units of the first molecule connected by a linear hydrocarbon spacer. The… CONTINUE READING

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