Relation between habit and structure of liquid single crystals of blue phases (Reply to the preceding Comment by P. Pieranski and P. E. Cladis)
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- reply
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 3 (3) , 399-401
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678298808086387
Abstract
In the preceding Comment [1] Pieranski and Cladis assert that the blue phase space groups derived in our Invited Article [2] are not consistent with the growth forms observed for our BP single crystals (cf. table 3 of [2]). We wish to reply as follows.Keywords
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