Alexander, Gareth P.
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Publication Helical Nanofilaments and the High Chiralty Limit of Smectics A(2009-12-18) Matsumoto, Elisabetta A.; Alexander, Gareth P.; Kamien, Randal D.Liquid crystalline systems exhibiting both macroscopic chirality and smectic order experience frustration resulting in mesophases possessing complex three-dimensional order. In the twist-grainboundary phase, defect lattices mediate the propagation of twist throughout the system. We propose a new chiral smectic structure composed of a lattice of chiral bundles as a model of the helical nanofilament (B4) phase of bent-core smectics.