Tag: Liquid crystal
Glassy ternary mixtures selectively reflected blue, green, or red light
What the study found The study found that ternary liquid crystalline mixtures could selectively reflect blue light in the glassy state. In the smectic C* phase, the same mixtures reflected either green or red light depending on how they were temperature treated. Why the authors say this matters The abstract does not state a broader…
Refined hydrodynamic models add lipid alignment to bilayer theory
What the study found The authors derive refined hydrodynamic models for lipid bilayers that include a scalar order parameter for the molecular alignment of lipids along the surface normal. They obtain a hydrodynamic surface Landau–Helfrich model for asymmetric lipid bilayers and a surface Beris–Edwards model for symmetric lipid bilayers. Why the authors say this matters…