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Invited Article

From the discovery of the partially bilayer smectic A phase to blue phases in polar liquid crystals

Pages 783-818 | Received 03 Sep 2014, Published online: 15 Apr 2015
 

Abstract

The significance of Gray’s cyanobiphenyls in the discovery of the partially bilayer smectic A phase (SmAd) and in the formulation of mixtures exhibiting the blue phase is described. The properties of the SmAd phase and its relationships to molecular structures are reviewed. Induced phenomena such as the transformation of nematics into smectics, SmAd or SmA1, as well as the opposite transformation of smectics into nematics are described and discussed.

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Prof. P.K. Mandal, Prof. S. Urban and Prof. W. Piecek for carefully and critically reading the manuscript and providing useful remarks to arrive at its final form.

Additional information

Funding

The work was supported by Polish Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education, Key Project POIG.01.03.01-14-016/08 ‘New photonic materials and their advanced applications’ and PBS 847.

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