What makes a liquid crystal? The effect of free volume on soft matter
What makes a liquid crystal? The effect of free volume on soft matter
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DOI：
10.1080/02678292.2015.1030348
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发表时间：
2015-06-03
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影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Cowling, Stephen J.
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作者：
Goodby, John W.;Mandle, Richard J.;Cowling, Stephen J.
在这篇文章中，我们通过分子形状的设计工程或通过分子结构的变形来探索由于最小化体系的自由体积而导致的液晶和软晶相的形成。根据这一概念，人们实现了一系列的新方法，如具有可变层间距的近晶A相、无层收缩的近晶C相、自由空间晶格以及N-Tb相中的纤维。
In this article, we probe the formation of liquid crystal and soft crystal phases as a consequence of minimising the free volume of the system either through design engineering of molecular shape or through deformation of molecular architecture. Following this concept, a number of realisations were made, for example, smectic A phases with variable layer spacing, smectic C phases without layer shrinkage, lattices of free space and fibres in N-TB phases.