Effect of various external factors and pretransitional phenomena on structural transformations in cholesteric liquid crystals

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Chilaya, GS [1 ]
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[1] Georgian Acad Sci, Inst Cybernet, GE-380086 Tbilisi, Georgia
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10.1134/1.1312938
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O7 [晶体学];
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0702 ; 070205 ; 0703 ; 080501 ;
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The publications on low-molecular thermotropic liquid crystals with cholesteric structures have been reviewed. The effect of an applied electric field on cholesteric structures is studied. Bistability of the cholesteric-nematic transition, electric field-induced color textures of cholesteric mixtures, and electro-optics of amorphous cholesteric structures are considered as well as pretransitional (blue and TGB) phases, discotic cholesterics, PDLC films, flexoelectric electro-optics, and photostimulated switching in cholesterics. (C) 2000 MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica".
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