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} }
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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