Chiral Interactions and Structures
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Materials Science
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The chiral structure of liquid crystalline phases arises due to the intrinsic chirality of the constituent mesogens. While it is seemingly straightforward to quantify the macroscopic chirality by using, for instance, the cholesteric pitch or the optical rotatory power, it is not as simple to quantify the chirality of a single molecule. I will discuss a systematic quantification of molecular chirality and show how the resulting chiral parameters may be used to predict macroscopic chiral structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9908277,
title = {Chiral Interactions and Structures},
author = {Randall D. Kamien},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9908277},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, plain TeX (macros included), 2 included eps figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the VIIIth Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Humacao, PR, 27 September - 1 October, 1999