Blue phases are known to appear in chiral liquid crystals in a small temperature range
between the chiral nematic phase and the isotropic one. They are optically active, non …

Free‐standing metal foam structures with nano‐dendritic walls of copper and tin are
fabricated by an electrochemical deposition process. This unique structure is attributed to …

Based on graduate lectures given by the authors, Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals:
Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments examines lamellar (smectic) …

Smectic and lamellar liquid crystals are three-dimensional layered structures in which each
layer behaves as a two-dimensional fluid. Because of their reduced dimensionality they …

If it is the exception that proves the rule, liquid crystalline blue phases prove the typical
properties of liquid crystals: The latter are ordered fluids, which show birefringence because …

Bent-core molecules based on a resorcinol bisbenzoate core with a series of distinct
substituents in different positions at the central resorcinol core have been synthesized and …

Two new homologous series of bent-core compounds have been synthesized. Their
mesophase behaviour has been investigated by polarizing microscopy, differential scanning …

Owing to fundamental reasons of symmetry, liquid crystals are soft materials. This softness
allows long length-scales, large susceptibilities and the existence of modulated phases …

Recently discovered chiral properties of several bent-core smectic liquid crystal phases are
summarized and discussed in detail under the assumption that typical bent-core molecules …

近期有关液晶学科的更多的基础和应用基础研究转向了应用这个奇妙的软物质态于平面显示
器件等光学领域以外的其它领域的深入探索, 这就形成了近期液晶科学研究中的'非显示'热 …