STRUCTURE OF LIQUID CRYSTALS, ESPECIALLY ORDER IN TWO DIMENSIONS

W. Helfrich

Liquid-crystalline phases and their structures, as known today, are briefly reviewed. Emphasis is on symmetry properties. Smectic ordered phases are assigned to some of the 17 two-dimensional space groups.

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W. Helfrich. STRUCTURE OF LIQUID CRYSTALS, ESPECIALLY ORDER IN TWO DIMENSIONS. Journal de Physique Colloques, 1979, 40 (C3), pp.C3-105-C3-114. ⟨10.1051/jphyscol:1979323⟩. ⟨jpa-00218719⟩