Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Conglomerates

• 25 September 2003
• book chapter
• Published by Wiley
• p. 457-518
• https://doi.org/10.1002/0471471895.ch8

Abstract

Keywords

• LIQUID CRYSTALS AND SUPERMOLECULAR STEREOCHEMISTRY
• WHAT IS A MOLECULE? WHAT IS A LIQUID CRYSTAL?
• INAC PHASE SEQUENCE
• SMC* PHASE AND FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
• SMCA PHASE AND ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
• REFLECTION SYMMETRY BREAKING IN ORGANIC MATERIALS
• CRYSTAL CONGLOMERATES
• SPONTANEOUS REFLECTION SYMMETRY BREAKING IN LIQUID CRYSTALS
• CHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTAL FROM ACHIRAL MOLECULES: BANANA PHASES
• BILAYER SMECTICS AND FIRST ACHIRAL ANTIFERROELECTRIC LC
• BENT-CORE MESOGENS
• MATSUNAGA DIESTERS
• BANANA MANIA
• B4 PHASE
• B2 PHASE: SPONTANEOUS REFLECTION SYMMETRY BREAKING IN FLUID SMECTIC
• SMCP PHASES
• SMCSPA AND SMCAPA ANTIFERROELECTRIC PHASES
• STEREOGENIC ELEMENTS IN SMCP PHASES: SMCP SUPERMOLECULAR DIASTEREOMERS
• FERROELECTRIC BANANA BY DESIGN
• FERROELECTRIC “MACROSCOPIC RACEMATE” FROM UNICHIRAL MESOGEN