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18351811

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-3-20
pubmed:abstractText
Liquid crystals are intriguing electrically responsive soft matter systems. We report previously unexplored field-induced changes in the structures of some frustrated liquid crystal phases and describe them theoretically. Specifically, we have discovered using resonant x-ray scattering that the four-layer intermediate smectic phase can undergo either a transition to the ferrielectric (three-layer) phase or to the ferroelectric phase, depending on temperature. Our studies of intermediate phases using electric fields offer a way to test theories that describe ferroelectricity in self-assembling fluids.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1539-3755
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
77
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
010701
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Unexpected field-induced phase transitions between ferrielectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystal structures.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article