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- soap. The word "smectic" originates from the Latin word "smecticus", meaning cleaning, or having soap-like properties. The smectics are thus positionally...
- lamellar or smectic liquid crystal phases (Sm) of long range positional order. Low-order smectic phases include smectic A (SmA) and smectic C (SmC) phases...
- liquid crystals are composed of rod-like molecules, and admit nematic, smectic, or cholesterolic phases. Thermochromism Thermotropic liquid crystals Chandrasekhar...
- understanding Twist Grain Boundaries, Focal Conic Domains, and defect topology in smectic liquid crystals. He is also known for his idiosyncratic naming conventions...
- occurs at temperatures around 200 °C and is preceded by as yet unidentified smectic phases. It is also found that this material can segregate into chiral domains...
- laser. These bubble lasers have been made of dye-doped soap solutions and smectic liquid crystal. In a bubble laser, the bubble itself serves as the optical...
- possessing strong analogies, namely, superfluids, superconductors and smectics (liquid crystals). All these systems are expected to belong to the same...
- properties of liquid crystals and classified them in three types (nematics, smectics and cholesterics). In 1927, Vsevolod Frederiks devised the electrically...
- the molecules are freely moving around and only partly ordered. the cold smectic stage is closest to a solid phase where the molecules align themselves...
- categorized into the α-, β- and γ-modification as well as mesomorphic (smectic) forms. The α-modifications is predominant in iPP. Such crystals are built...