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Original Articles

Determination of the Cholesteric Screw Sense by the Droplet Method

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Pages 1-6 | Received 26 Jun 1979, Published online: 20 Apr 2011
 

Abstract

A new and simple way to determine the handedness of a room temperature cholesteric liquid crystal by comparison with a cholesteric phase of known screw sense and from the characteristic optical patterns displayed by cholesteric and nematic droplets floating in an isotropic solvent is described.

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