Freely Suspended Strands of Tilted Columnar Liquid-Crystal Phases: One-Dimensional Nematics with Orientational Jumps
- 17 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (20) , 1407-1410
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.1407
Abstract
Observations of stable, freely suspended liquid-crystal strands are reported. Liquid crystals of triphenylene hexa--dodecanoate can be stretched into strands of diameter ≳1 μm, with the disk-shaped molecules arranged into columns along the strand axis. In the phase ( C) the molecules are tilted with respect to the strand axis, the tilt orientation behaving as a one-dimensional nematiclike field, interrupted by jumps in orientation between degenerate stable positions relative to the column lattice.
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