Columnar discotic mesophases : elasticity, dislocations, instabilities
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by EDP Sciences in Journal de Physique
- Vol. 43 (4) , 655-662
- https://doi.org/10.1051/jphys:01982004304065500
Abstract
We establish the free energy density of a columnar discotic mesophase and use it in the study of dislocations and instabilities; we discuss in particular the buckling instability, which is a novel type of instability in liquid crystals, taking into account the full third-order elasticityKeywords
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