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Left or right cholesterics? A matter of helix handedness and curliness

Published:2014 Issue:30 Volume:16 Page:16225-16232
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Frezza Elisa¹²³,Ferrarini Alberta¹²³,Bindu Kolli Hima⁴⁵⁶,Giacometti Achille⁴⁵⁶,Cinacchi Giorgio⁷⁸⁹¹⁰

Affiliation:

1. Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche

2. Università di Padova

3. 35131 Padova, Italy

4. Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi

5. Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia

6. 30123 Venezia, Italy

7. Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Instituto de Física de la Materia Condensada

8. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

9. Campus de Cantoblanco

10. 28049 Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Using an Onsager-like theory, we have investigated the relationship between the morphology of hard helical particles and the features (pitch and handedness) of the cholesteric phase that they form.

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/CP/C4CP01816H

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