Blue Phases: Liquie Crystals With an Extra Twist
| GEOMETRY AND MATERIALS SEMINAR | |
| Topic: | Blue Phases: Liquie Crystals With an Extra Twist |
| Speaker: | Gareth Alexander |
| Affiliation: | University of Pennsylvania |
| Date: | Tuesday, October 6 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
The blue phases are remarkable mesophases appearing in highly chiral liquid crystals; they exhibit three-dimensional crystalline orientational order whilst remaining fully fluid. I will survey the development of our understanding of these materials that took place in the 1980s and outline some of the areas of current research interest.