Department of Physics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
1998
Publication Source
Ferroelectrics
Volume
212
Issue
1
Start Page
1
Last Page
20
DOI
10.1080/00150199808217346
Abstract
Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple cholesteric phase to the twist-grain-boundary phases, and it is responsible for interesting and technologically important materials like ferroelectric liquid crystals. This paper will review some recent advances in our understanding of the connection between the chiral geometry of individual molecules and the important phenomenological parameters that determine macroscopic chiral structure. It will then consider chiral structure in columnar systems and propose a new equilibrium phase consisting of a regular lattice of twisted ropes.
Copyright/Permission Statement
The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Ferroelectrics, 1998, http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00150199808217346.
Recommended Citation
Lubensky, T. C., Harris, A., Kamien, R. D., & Yan, G. (1998). Chirality in Liquid Crystals: From Microscopic Origins to Macroscopic Structure. Ferroelectrics, 212 (1), 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00150199808217346
Date Posted: 20 August 2015
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