On twinning in smectic crystals

V. I. Marchenko

doi:10.1134/S0021364007230105

On twinning in smectic crystals

Soft Condensed Matter 2013-04-29 v1

Authors: V. I. Marchenko

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Abstract

It is shown that mechanical twinning in smectic crystals is possible. The structure of the boundary of twins for a small disorientation of crystallites is determined. The periodic twin structure, which should appear at the tension of the smectic layer, is proposed.

Keywords

crystal structure and quasicrystals

Cite

@article{arxiv.1304.7129,
  title  = {On twinning in smectic crystals},
  author = {V. I. Marchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7129},
  year   = {2013}
}

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