- soap. The word "
smectic"
originates from the
Latin word "smecticus",
meaning cleaning, or
having soap-like properties. The
smectics are thus positionally...
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lamellar or
smectic liquid crystal phases (Sm) of long
range positional order. Low-order
smectic phases include smectic A (SmA) and
smectic C (SmC) phases...
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liquid crystals are
composed of rod-like molecules, and
admit nematic,
smectic, or
cholesterolic phases. Chandrasekhar, S. (1977).
Liquid Crystals (2nd ed...
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possessing strong analogies, namely, superfluids,
superconductors and
smectics (liquid crystals). All
these systems are
expected to
belong to the same...
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understanding Twist Grain Boundaries,
Focal Conic Domains, and
defect topology in
smectic liquid crystals. He is also
known for his
idiosyncratic naming conventions...
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occurs at
temperatures around 200 °C and is
preceded by as yet
unidentified smectic phases. It is also
found that this
material can
segregate into
chiral domains...
- laser.
These bubble lasers have been made of dye-doped soap
solutions and
smectic liquid crystal. In a
bubble laser, the
bubble itself serves as the optical...
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properties of
liquid crystals and
classified them in
three types (nematics,
smectics and cholesterics). In 1927,
Vsevolod Frederiks devised the electrically...
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molecules are
freely moving around and only
partly ordered. the cold
smectic stage is
closest to a
solid phase where the
molecules align themselves...
- an
intermediate state of
order is
still maintained as in the nematic,
smectic, and
columnar phases of
liquid crystals.
Mesophases thus
exhibit anisotropy...
