Search Results: Smectic


Liquid crystal
Minggu, 2026-04-05 19:01:28

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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Mesogen
Kamis, 2024-01-25 01:11:17

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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Temperature sensitive glass
Minggu, 2025-12-14 15:49:01

upon temperature. There are three main phases of these crystals: nematic, smectic, and chiral. Visual glass goes through a gradual progression while altering...

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Bubble laser
Jumat, 2025-12-12 14:35:21

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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Lambda transition
Selasa, 2025-07-29 04:03:48

possessing strong analogies, namely, superfluids, superconductors and smectics (liquid crystals). All these systems are expected to belong to the same...

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Randall Kamien
Minggu, 2025-10-05 02:39:57

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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Thermotropic crystal
Selasa, 2024-08-27 17:10:23

liquid crystals are composed of rod-like molecules, and admit nematic, smectic, or cholesterolic phases. Thermochromism Thermotropic liquid crystals Chandrasekhar...

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8K resolution
Senin, 2026-03-30 19:17:19

both a Full Frame sensor and Super 35 sensor. In 1986, Sony introduced a smectic light valve LCD laser projector that could display high resolutions up...

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Liquid crystal thermometer
Jumat, 2026-05-08 20:54:39

the molecules are freely moving around and only partly ordered. the cold smectic stage is closest to a solid phase where the molecules align themselves...

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Liquid-crystal display
Rabu, 2026-05-13 19:27:42

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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Polypropylene
Jumat, 2026-05-22 07:07:19

categorized into the α-, β- and γ-modification as well as mesomorphic (smectic) forms. The α-modifications is predominant in iPP. Such crystals are built...

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List of unsolved problems in physics
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:47:27

non-Abelian fractional statistics? Liquid crystals: Can the nematic to smectic (A) phase transition in liquid crystal states be characterized as a universal...

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Ferroelectric liquid crystal display
Minggu, 2025-04-27 07:09:21

is a display technology based on the ferroelectric properties of chiral smectic liquid crystals as proposed in 1980 by Clark and Lagerwall. Reportedly...

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Landau–Peierls instability
Senin, 2026-06-08 04:52:13

one-dimensional ordering of atoms/molecules in 3D space such as 1D crystals and smectics and also in two-dimensional ordering in 2D space such as a monomolecular...

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Antal Jákli
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:35:34

A.; Saupe, A. (2006). One- and Two-Dimensional Fluids: Properties of Smectic, Lamellar and Columnar Liquid Crystals. CRC Press. doi:10.1201/9781420012200...

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Elisabeth Smela
Minggu, 2026-06-07 04:44:49

1991. Her 1992 doctoral dissertation, The effect of substrate topology on smectic liquid crystal alignment: A high-resolution x-ray diffraction study, was...

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Bentonite
Rabu, 2026-05-20 05:11:37

mineral, is a potassium-rich phyllosilicate formed from the alteration of smectic clay in contact with groundwater rich in K+ ions. Illite is a high-charge...

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Homeotropic alignment
Minggu, 2023-12-31 22:29:28

the homeotropic alignments. Homeotropic alignment often appears in the smectic A phase (SA). In discotic liquid crystals homeotropic alignment is defined...

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Ultra-high-definition television
Selasa, 2026-06-02 20:40:56

as high of an increase in bandwidth demand. In 1986, Sony introduced a smectic light valve LCD laser projector that could display high resolutions up...

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Biaxial nematic
Selasa, 2025-09-30 21:48:46

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...

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Mining industry of Morocco
Minggu, 2025-12-14 13:46:26

manganese, iron, and barite, while zinc, antimony, strategic metals, and smectic clays are sourced in the Rif. The eastern region is known for lead, zinc...

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John Toner (physicist)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 11:16:49

corresponding to liquid crystal layers, smectic P). In the incompressible case (constant density) this corresponds to a smectic liquid crystal in equilibrium,...

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Mesophase
Jumat, 2025-05-23 17:39:20

an intermediate state of order is still maintained as in the nematic, smectic, and columnar phases of liquid crystals. Mesophases thus exhibit anisotropy...

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Leo Radzihovsky
Minggu, 2026-05-03 02:37:39

banana bent-core shaped mesogens, anti- and ferroelectric nematic and smectic phases, and spontaneously chiral and cholesteric liquid crystals. In quantum...

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N. V. Madhusudana
Minggu, 2025-09-28 03:17:48

for the nematic to nematic and smectic-A to smectic-A reentrant phase transitions. He elucidated the phenomenon of smectic-A phase with tilted molecules...

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Molecular machine
Senin, 2026-03-30 02:44:59

isomerization-induced cooperative motions to higher molecular orientation in smectic liquid-crystalline azobenzene molecules". Nature Communications. 10 (1):...

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Ginzburg–Landau theory
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:30:19

February 1974). "First-Order Phase Transitions in Superconductors and Smectic-A Liquid Crystals". Physical Review Letters. 32 (6): 292–295. Bibcode:1974PhRvL...

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Liposome
Senin, 2026-02-02 10:34:50

genetics. As Bangham had been calling his lipid structures "multilamellar smectic mesophases," or sometimes "Banghasomes," Weissmann proposed the more user-friendly...

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Maria-Carme Calderer
Selasa, 2025-09-16 17:44:42

Chun; Phillips, Daniel The phase transition between chiral nematic and smectic A∗ liquid crystals. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 165 (2002), no. 2, 161–186...

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Alfred Saupe
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 06:36:47

State. There he continued his NMR studies, concentrating on the chiral smectic phases and the elastic characteristics of nematic liquid crystals. Saupe...

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Ferroelectricity
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 01:55:21

verified by several observations of behavior connected to ferroelectricity in smectic liquid-crystal phases that are chiral and tilted. The technology allows...

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Monge patch
Jumat, 2025-12-05 15:40:43

differential geometry textbooks cited above. Golubović; Lubensky (1989). "Smectic elastic constants of lamellar fluid membrane phases: Crumpling effects"...

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Lyotropic liquid crystal
Rabu, 2026-02-04 19:01:28

denoted by the symbol Lα and can be considered the lyotropic equivalent of a smectic A mesophase. This phase consists of amphiphilic molecules arranged in bilayer...

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Georges Friedel
Minggu, 2026-02-22 01:35:10

the director-field in the mesophase). Second, Friedel coined the term smectic phase for a layered mesophase having the structure of neat soap. Third...

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Electroactive polymer
Senin, 2025-09-15 15:19:38

Chun Ying Zhang; Junji Watanabe (January 22, 2008). "Unusual Formation of Smectic A Structure in Cross-Linked Monodomain Elastomer of Main-Chain LC Polyester...

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Surface freezing
Minggu, 2025-05-04 06:27:30

ordered in an hexagonal lattice. A related effect, the existence of a smectic phase at the surface of a nematic liquid bulk, was observed in liquid crystals...

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Liquid-crystal polymer
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 01:51:27

polymers will aggregate into different mesophases: nematics, cholesterics, smectics and compounds with highly polar end groups. More information about the...

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Thiophosphoryl fluoride
Kamis, 2025-08-14 09:04:40

magnetic shielding anisotropies and the F–P–F bond angle of PSF3 in a smectic liquid crystal solvent". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 65 (11): 4756...

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Linda S. Hirst
Senin, 2025-12-29 01:01:31

Susan (2002), An X-ray and Electro-optical Study of the Liquid Crystal Smectic C* Sub-phases (Ph.D. thesis), University of Manchester, ProQuest 2117232746...

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Raman Research Institute
Selasa, 2026-05-26 12:04:26

phases, namely the undulating twist grain boundary C phase and the biaxial smectic A phase. Techniques developed for driving passive matrix liquid crystal...

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James Fergason
Minggu, 2026-04-12 04:42:51

particular, to screen for breast cancer. He participated in the discovery of smectic C liquid crystal phase. Twisted nematic liquid crystal displays were superior...

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Jan Zaanen
Kamis, 2026-03-05 10:49:00

J. Zaanen, E.-A. Kim and M. Lawler, How topological defects couple the smectic and nematic electronic structure of the cuprate pseudogap states, Science...

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Virial stress
Senin, 2025-08-18 04:22:39

ISSN 0302-072X. S2CID 122678419. Loison, Claire (2005). Numerical Simulations of a Smectic Lamellar Phase of Amphiphilic Molecules. Cuvillier Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86537-655-8...

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Sriram Ramaswamy
Kamis, 2025-10-02 16:20:41

Solid like behavior in liquid layers: a theory of the yield stress in smectics (PhD thesis). University of Chicago. OCLC 17122087. "Professor Sriram Ramaswamy:...

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Ferroelectric polymer
Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:27:05

crystalline polymers. In 1974, R.B. Meyer predicted ferroelectricity in chiral smectic liquid crystals by pure symmetry conditions. Shortly after, Clark and Lagerwall...

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Distance of closest approach
Jumat, 2026-04-03 00:30:39

not only orientationally ordered nematic, but also positionally ordered smectic phases. Here, the system gives up some (orientational and even positional)...

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Mark Bowick
Kamis, 2025-11-06 02:19:01

Sidney R. (2018). "Topology and ground-state degeneracy of tetrahedral smectic vesicles". The European Physical Journal E. 41 (12): 143. arXiv:1807.05988...

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E. Peter Raynes
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 21:52:54

(1987) doi:10.1016/0141-9382(87)90038-2 Optical studies of thin layers of smectic-C materials, Anderson, M.H., Jones, J.C., Raynes, E.P., Towler, M.J., Journal...

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N-Octyl β-D-thioglucopyranoside
Senin, 2025-08-18 12:57:06

α-anomeric octylthioglucoside exhibits liquid crystalline properties forming a smectic phase A. Nonionic detergents solubilize membrane proteins gently and (largely)...

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Metallomesogen
Rabu, 2022-08-03 10:55:18

behavior. Thus, they adopt ordered structures in the molten phase, e.g. smectic and nematic phases. The dominant interactions responsible for their phase...

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David Robert Nelson
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 22:04:06

experiments on two-dimensional colloidal assemblies, thin films and bulk smectic liquid crystals. Nelson's research also includes a theory of the structure...

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Cholesteric liquid crystal
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:15:33

of cholesteryl alkanoates found that cooling the isotropic phase to the smectic phase (a phase where molecules are arranged in discrete planes) via the...

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Evolution of a random network
Senin, 2025-12-15 19:12:38

Sánchez-Ferrer, A., Gimeno, N., & Ros, M. B. (2015). Phase Transitions in Smectic Bent-Core Main-Chain Polymer Networks Detected by Dielectric and Ultrasonic...

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Shang-keng Ma
Minggu, 2026-05-24 03:50:50

Shang-Keng (1974). "First-Order Phase Transitions in Superconductors and Smectic-ALiquid Crystals". Physical Review Letters. 32 (6): 292–295. Bibcode:1974PhRvL...

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Chemical crystallography before X-rays
Minggu, 2026-06-07 07:22:35

2022. Retrieved 8 May 2025. Sackmann, H. (July 1989). "Plenary Lecture. Smectic liquid crystals. A historical review". Liquid Crystals. 5 (1): 43–55. Bibcode:1989LoCr...

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Blue phase mode LCD
Rabu, 2026-03-11 23:03:54

Miyoshi; Yokoyama, Hiroshi (2005). "Optical isotropy and iridescence in a smectic 'blue phase'". Nature. 437 (7058). Springer Science and Business Media...

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Optofluidics
Minggu, 2025-01-05 03:58:40

and communications. A bubble laser can be created by add laser dye and smectic liquid crystal to soapy water and producing foam. The resulting optical...

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Surface forces apparatus
Selasa, 2026-01-06 11:32:32

and Engineering "The X-ray Surface Forces Apparatus: Structure of a Thin Smectic Liquid Crystal Film Under Confinement" Science 24 June 1994: Vol. 264....

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Distrontium ruthenate
Rabu, 2026-04-15 23:04:52

Yonezawa, S.; Maeno, Y.; Ishida, K. (2022-04-22). "Superconducting spin smecticity evidencing the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in Sr 2 RuO 4"....

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Photopyroelectric
Selasa, 2025-10-14 10:53:43

Pizzoferrato, R., & Zammit, U. (2013). Strain induced homeotropic alignment in the smecticA phase of liquid crystals. Liquid Crystals, 40(11), 1535-1540....

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