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Theory of chiral smectic liquid crystalline membranes

✍ Scribed by C. Nadir Kaplan

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
259 KB
Volume
389
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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✦ Synopsis

This work is intended to be a brief introduction to smectic A and chiral smectic A liquid crystals and current research topics focusing on chiral smectic A liquid crystalline membranes. We derive the elastic free energies of smectic A and chiral smectic A phases, as well as the surface energies of smooth membranes. Furthermore, we explain how twist and bend deformations can penetrate into smectic layers despite geometrical constraints, either by external deformations or due to a tendency of tilting of chiral molecular packing, in analogy with the magnetic field penetration into bulk superconductors.

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