First example of a lyotropic smectic C* analog phase [electronic resource] : design, properties and chirality effects / Johanna Ricarda Bruckner.
Bruckner, Johanna Ricarda.
2016
QD923
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Title First example of a lyotropic smectic C* analog phase [electronic resource] : design, properties and chirality effects / Johanna Ricarda Bruckner.
Author Bruckner, Johanna Ricarda.
ISBN 9783319272030 (electronic book)
3319272039 (electronic book)
9783319272023
3319272020
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27203-0
Publication Details Cham : Springer, ©2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-27203-0 doi
Call Number QD923
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.4/29
540
Summary In this thesis Johanna Bruckner reports the discovery of the lyotropic counterpart of the thermotropic SmC* phase, which has become famous as the only spontaneously polarized, ferroelectric fluid in nature. By means of polarizing optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction and electro-optic experiments she firmly establishes aspects of the structure of the novel lyotropic liquid crystalline phase and elucidates its fascinating properties, among them a pronounced polar electro-optic effect, analogous to the ferroelectric switching of its thermotropic counterpart. The helical ground state of the mesophase raises the fundamental question of how chiral interactions are "communicated" across layers of more or less disordered and achiral solvent molecules which are located between adjacent bi-layers of the chiral amphiphile molecules. This thesis bridges an important gap between thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals and pioneers a new field of liquid crystal research.
Note "Doctoral thesis accepted by the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany."
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Series Springer theses.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783319272023
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Introduction
Aims and scope of this thesis
Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals
Materials and experimental techniques
Results and discussion
Summary
References
Appendix A
Appendix B.

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