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  • Title: Structure of blue phase III of cholesteric liquid crystals.
    Author: Henrich O, Stratford K, Cates ME, Marenduzzo D.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2011 Mar 11; 106(10):107801. PubMed ID: 21469836.
    Abstract:
    We report large scale simulations of the blue phases of cholesteric liquid crystals. Our results suggest a structure for blue phase III, the blue fog, which has been the subject of a long debate in liquid crystal physics. We propose that blue phase III is an amorphous network of disclination lines, which is thermodynamically and kinetically stabilized over crystalline blue phases at intermediate chiralities. This amorphous network becomes ordered under an applied electric field, as seen in experiments.
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