Journal
LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 37, Issue 6-7, Pages 669-678Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2010.488938
Keywords
biaxial nematic; cybotactic; bent-core mesogen; nematic
Funding
- NSF [DMR-9971143]
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In 1970, two seemingly unrelated reports about nematic liquid crystals appeared in the scientific literature: at Kent State University, Adrian de Vries reported local smectic order in a nematic that he termed cybotactic, and at IBM, Marvin Freiser showed the possibility of a lower symmetry nematic that he named biaxial. These two discoveries are connected through consideration of the origins of spontaneous symmetry breaking, in particular, how broken symmetry within transient clusters permeating a nominally uniaxial nematic may lead to a biaxial nematic.
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