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The liquid-crystalline smectic blue phases
Eric Grelet
Smectic blue phases (BPSm) are new mesophases of thermotropic liquid crystals, which exhibit a double geometrical frustration: the extension of chirality in three spatial dimension…
cond-mat.soft2003★ 173 cited
What is the origin of chirality in the cholesteric phase of virus suspensions ?
Eric Grelet, Seth Fraden
We report a study of the cholesteric phase in monodisperse suspensions of the rod-like virus fd sterically stabilized with the polymer polyethylene glycol (PEG). After coating the…