State-of-the-Art Liquid Crystals Research in UK

• Other Authors: Dierking, Ingo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; Materials science; liquid crystal; soliton; toron; skyrmion; nematic; cholesteric; smectic; micro-cargo transport; dissipative dynamics; twist-bend phase; liquid crystals; molecular simulation; molecular dynamics; dissipative particle dynamics; ferroelectric materials; smectic liquid crystals; electrocaloric effect; ferroelectric; birefringence; dielectrics; chirality; polymer; cholesterol; block copolymer; self-assembly; polymerisation-induced self-assembly; Hartshorne; Bouligand; optical textures; developable domains; columnar hexagonal phases; liquid crystal dimers; intercalated; interdigitated; twist-bend nematic; twist-bend smectic; resonant soft X-ray scattering; topological defects; nematic liquid crystals; gratings; defect dynamics; bistability; LCD; ZBD; direct laser writing; diffraction gratings; stretchability; n/a
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The United Kingdom has a proud history of liquid crystal research. Its contributions span from the formulation of the theory of nematic elasticity as it is used today, uncovered via the Leslie-Erickson theory describing the viscosity of mesophases, to the discovery of the first room-temperature nema...