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• W847802104 abstract "Our recent discovery of the spontaneous formation of chiral domains in fluid smectic phases of achiral bow-shaped molecules opens up a wide variety of possibilities for new liquid crystal phases and phenomena. The basic, spontaneously chiral layer structure of the highest temperature fluid smectic phases, the B2 and B7, are shown. One of the most intriguing aspects of this structure is the plethora of possible phases coming from different stacking sequences of the polar ordering and tilt directions. The four possibilities of next-nearest neighbor alternation are shown. In the original material studied, NOBOW, the ground states found are antiferroelectric, either the racemic SmC(sub S)P(sub A) or the chiral SmC(sub A)P(sub A). We are currently studying MHOBOW, synthesized by D. Walba which, by virtue of its methyl hexyloxy tail has a tendency to form anticlinic layer interfaces, in the hope of finding a phase with a ferroelectric ground state, either SmC(sub A)P(sub S) or SmC(sub S)P(sub A), which can be obtained in NOBOW only by applying a field. Preliminary observations of MHO-BOW have made its study, from the point of view of understanding novel LC structures, extremely high priority. The following truly remarkable characteristics have been revealed: (i) The smectic phase grows out of the isotropic in the form of helical ribbons. The resulting planar aligned textures of focal conics with layers normal to glass plates exhibit bizarre modulations, including stripes and checker-boards. These have also been seen in other materials suggesting that this is a new phase (tentatively called B7), which is a fluid smectic with some kind of in-layer structure. (ii) It is virtually impossible to make freely suspended films of MHOBOW. Rather it makes the freely suspended filaments which preliminary x-ray scattering experiments reveal to have the nested cylinder layer structure indicated; (iii) The powder x-ray diffraction exhibits four resolution-limited smectic layering peaks, very close in layer spacing, which vary continuously with T. This is further evidence for a more complex three dimensional structure than NOBOW, which has a typical single layering reflection. (iv) The x-ray structure factor of the layering peak of the filaments is extraordinarily complex and rich. Varying in qL (the scattering vector component along the filament axis) from a double slit-like pattern to modulated layer-like patterns, as qH (the scattering vector component normal to the filament axis) is varied over the range where the four powder peaks are located. These results suggest some kind of mosaic structure, perhaps with different layer spacings corresponding to the different stacking sequences. Recent x-ray diffraction experiments show that the peaks are modulated in intensity upon translation along a filament, in domains of several hundred microns dimension. These preliminary experiments suggest that the B7 is a fluid smectic with extremely unusual and fascinating structures. Of all of the many hundreds of fluid smectic materials we have attempted to study in the freely suspended film geometry over the years, only a few have failed to form films, and none showed any great tendency to form filaments, although this clearly should be a possible freely suspended smectic LC morphology. On several occasions in the past we have intentionally tried to make filaments from a variety of smectics without success. Thus the smectic filament formation property makes the B7 phase unique. It seems quite likely that the stability of filaments is related to the in-plane structure. The filaments exhibit other interesting structural and optical features. They are birefringent with a local optic axis which is oblique and which can vary continuously along filament and which can be manipulated with an electric field applied normal to the fiber, as if the field were causing a rotation of the optic axis about the fiber axis. Rapid displacement of the ends of the fiber toward one another causes a macroscopic helixing at low T and causes thick regions to transiently appear at high T, a 1D analog of island formation on a rapidly compressed film." @default.
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• W847802104 title "Freely Suspended Smectic Filaments and the Structure of the B7 Phase of MHOBOW" @default.
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