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Christian D Santangelo1, Randall D Kamien.
Abstract
We develop an explicit and tractable representation of a twist-grain-boundary phase of a smectic-A liquid crystal. This allows us to calculate the interaction energy between grain boundaries and the relative contributions from the bending and compression deformations. We discuss the special stability of the pi/2 grain boundaries and discuss the relation of this structure to the Schwarz D surface.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16712038 DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.137801
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN： 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161