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The liquid-crystalline smectic blue phases

Soft Condensed Matter 2013-06-25 v2

Abstract

Smectic blue phases (BPSm) are new mesophases of thermotropic liquid crystals, which exhibit a double geometrical frustration: the extension of chirality in three spatial dimensions like the classical blue phases, and helical twist competing with smectic order, as in the TGB phases. The existence of a quasi-long range smectic order in BPSm phases breaks the cubic symmetry of classical blue phases. The symmetries of these new phases have been determined by X-ray scattering and optical polarizing microscopy experiments.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310285,
  title  = {The liquid-crystalline smectic blue phases},
  author = {Eric Grelet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310285},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5pages, 13 figures