Unmasking the structure of a chiral cubic thermotropic liquid crystal phase by a combination of soft and tender resonant X-ray scattering-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Unmasking the structure of a chiral cubic thermotropic liquid crystal phase by a combination of soft and tender resonant X-ray scattering

Published:2022 Issue:42 Volume:18 Page:8194-8200
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Grabovac Timon¹,Gorecka Ewa²^ORCID,Zhu Chenhui³^ORCID,Pociecha Damian²^ORCID,Vaupotič Nataša¹⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

2. Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland

3. Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

4. Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

A resonant X-ray scattering for two structural models of a chiral cubic liquid crystalline phase with a giant unit cell is studied theoretically and compared to experimental measurements.

Funder

Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS

U.S. Department of Energy

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/SM/D2SM01030E

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