Biaxiality in Nematic and Smectic Liquid Crystals. Final Report

Technical Report · Tue Jan 24 04:00:00 EST 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1417898· OSTI ID:1417898

Kumar, Satyendra ^[1]; Li, Quan ^[2]; Srinivasarao, Mohan ^[3]; Agra-Kooijman, Dena M. ^[2]; Rey, Alejandro ^[4]

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1. Kent State Univ., Kent, OH (United States); Kent State University
2. Kent State Univ., Kent, OH (United States)
3. Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
4. McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)

During the award period, the project team explored several phenomena in a diverse group of soft condensed matter systems. These include understanding of the structure of the newly discovered twist-bend nematic phase, solving the mystery of de Vries smectic phases, probing of interesting associations and defect structures in chromonic liquid crystalline systems, dispersions of ferroelectric nanoparticles in smectic liquid crystals, investigations of newly synthesized light sensitive and energy harvesting materials with highly desirable transport properties. Our findings are summarized in the following report followed by a list of 36 publications and 37 conference presentations. We achieved this with the support of Basic Sciences Division of the US DOE for which we are thankful.

• Research Organization: Kent State Univ., Kent, OH (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
• DOE Contract Number: SC0001412
• OSTI ID: 1417898
• Report Number(s): DOE-Kent--0001412
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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