Chiral phases
Chiral phases of liquid crystals.
Chiral nematic phase[edit]
Also known as the cholesteric phase.
Helical twisting power[edit]
The helical twisting power, , determines the pitch of the chiral nematic phase produced when a nematic liquid crystal is doped with a low concentration of chiral solute molecules. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Melanie J. Cook and Mark R. Wilson "Calculation of helical twisting power for liquid crystal chiral dopants", Journal of Chemical Physics 112 pp. 1560-1564 (2000)
- ↑ Mark R. Wilson and David J. Earl "Calculating the helical twisting power of chiral dopants", Journal of Materials Chemistry 11 pp. 2672-2677 (2001)
- ↑ Maureen P. Neal, Miklos Solymosi, Mark R. Wilson and David J. Earl "Helical twisting power and scaled chiral indices", Journal of Chemical Physics 119 3567 (2003)
- ↑ David J. Earl and Mark R. Wilson "Predictions of molecular chirality and helical twisting powers: A theoretical study", Journal of Chemical Physics 119 10280 (2003)
- ↑ David J. Earl and Mark R. Wilson "Calculations of helical twisting powers from intermolecular torques", Journal of Chemical Physics 120 pp. 9679-9683 (2004)
- Related reading
- Daniel A. Beller, Thomas Machon, Simon Čopar, Daniel M. Sussman, Gareth P. Alexander, Randall D. Kamien, and Ricardo A. Mosna "Geometry of the Cholesteric Phase", Physical Review X 4 031050 (2014)
- Michael P. Allen "Density functional theory for chiral nematic liquid crystals", Molecular Physics 114 pp. 2574-2579 (2016)
- Maxime M. C. Tortora and Jonathan P. K. Doye "Perturbative density functional methods for cholesteric liquid crystals", Journal of Chemical Physics 146 184504 (2017)
- Maxime M. C. Tortora and Jonathan P. K. Doye "Hierarchical bounding structures for efficient virial computations: Towards a realistic molecular description of cholesterics", Journal of Chemical Physics 147 224504 (2017)