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The study of mechanisms of chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystalline materials

2013/11/B/ST3/04247

Keywords:

bent-core- dimer- and ferroceno- mesogens liquid crystals the structure of non-chiral chiral and polar thermotropic biaxial liquid crystals computer simulations local density functional theory Landau-deGennes theory spontaneous and induced chirality,flexopolarization

Descriptors:

  • ST3_15: Statistical physics of condensed matter, phase transitions, noise and fluctuations, etc.
  • ST3_17: Other related subjects
  • ST3_18:

Panel:

ST3 - Condensed matter physics: structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Fizyki, Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Lech Longa 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 5

Call: OPUS 6 - announced on 2013-09-16

Amount awarded: 408 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2014-07-08

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-01-07

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Wymiana wadliwych podzespołów w klastrze obliczeniowym Shiva (3 000 PLN)
  2. Dodatkowe wyposażenie komputerowe (1 750 PLN)
  3. Laptop/Notebook z wyposażeniem (11 248 PLN)
  4. Laptop/Notebook (10 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (17)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Modulated nematic structures induced by chirality and steric polarization
    Authors:
    Lech Longa, Grzegorz Pająk
    Academic press:
    Physical Review E (Rapid Communication) (rok: 2016, tom: 93, strony: 040701-1---040701-5 (R) +Supplemental material 1-9), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevE.93.040701 - link to the publication
  2. Twist-bend nematic phases of bent-shaped biaxial molecules
    Authors:
    Wojciech Tomczyk, Grzegorz Pająk, Lech Longa
    Academic press:
    Soft Matter (rok: 2016, tom: 12, strony: 7445--7452), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/c6sm01197g - link to the publication
  3. Comment on the published article Dichroic ratio and order parameters of some sudan dyes doped in nematic liquid crystalline matrix" by A. Maleki et al., Optik, 126 (2015) 5473–5477
    Authors:
    Wojciech Tomczyk
    Academic press:
    Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics (rok: 2017, tom: 141, strony: 146), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.ijleo.2017.05.063 - link to the publication
  4. Comments on the published article The effect of optical purity on the coexistence phenomenon and on the polarization – electric field hysteresis behavior in SmC* and SmCA* phases" by M. Chemingui et al., Journal of Molecular Liquids, 222 (2016) 1101–1108
    Authors:
    Wojciech Tomczyk
    Academic press:
    Journal of Molecular Liquids (rok: 2017, tom: 234, strony: 353–354), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.molliq.2017.03.081 - link to the publication
  5. Polar interactions between bent–core molecules as a stabilising factor for inhomogeneous nematic phases with spontaneous bend deformations
    Authors:
    M. A. Osipov, G. Pająk
    Academic press:
    Liquid Crystals (rok: 2016, tom: 43, strony: 45301), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/02678292.2016.1247474 - link to the publication
  6. Effect of polar intermolecular interactions on the elastic constants of bent-core nematics and the origin of the twist-bend phase
    Authors:
    M.A. Osipov, G. Pająk
    Academic press:
    The European Physical Journal E (Soft Matter and Biological Physics) (rok: 2016, tom: 39 (45), strony: 45303), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1140/epje/i2016-16045-2 - link to the publication
  7. Modulated nematic structures and chiral symmetry breaking in 2D
    Authors:
    Karol Trojanowski, Michaƚ Cieśla, Lech Longa
    Academic press:
    Liquid Crystals (rok: 2016, tom: 43, strony: 45302), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/02678292.2016.1261192 - link to the publication
  8. Note: Formation of the nematic splay-bend in two-dimensional systems of bow-shaped particles
    Authors:
    Paweł Karbowniczek
    Academic press:
    The Journal of Chemical Physics (rok: 2018, tom: 148, strony: 136101), Wydawca: The American Institute of Physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1063/1.5021541 - link to the publication
  9. Possible mechanisms of polar order in 2D systems of banana type liquid crystals
    Authors:
    A. Chrzanowska
    Academic press:
    Ferroelectrics (rok: 2016, tom: 495, strony: 43–52), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/00150193.2016.1136730 - link to the publication
  10. Computational aspects of the smectization process in liquid crystals: An example study of a perfectly aligned two-dimensional hard-boomerang system
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Chrzanowska
    Academic press:
    Physical Review E (rok: 2017, tom: 95, strony: 063316-1-9), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevE.95.063316 - link to the publication
  11. Random sequential adsorption of starlike particles
    Authors:
    M Cieśla, P Karbowniczek
    Academic press:
    Physical Review E (rok: 2015, tom: 91(4), strony: 042404-1 --- 042404-6), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042404 - link to the publication
  12. Twist-bend nematic phase in the presence of molecular chirality
    Authors:
    Lech Longa, Wojciech Tomczyk
    Academic press:
    Liquid Crystals (rok: 2018, tom: 45:13-15, strony: 2074-2085), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/02678292.2018.1499148 - link to the publication
  13. Anomalously low twist and bend elastic constants in an oxadiazole-based bent-core nematic liquid crystal and its mixtures; contributions of spontaneous chirality and polarity
    Authors:
    S. Srigengan, M. Nagaraj, A. Ferrarini, R. Mandle, S. J. Cowling, M. A. Osipov, G. Pająk, J. W. Goodby and H. F. Gleeson
    Academic press:
    Journal of Materials Chemistry C (rok: 2018, tom: 6, strony: 980--988), Wydawca: The Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/c7tc04664b - link to the publication
  14. Comments on the published article Dielectric anisotropy, refractive indices and order parameter of W–1680 nematic liquid crystal" by M. S. Zakerhamidi et al., Journal of Molecular Liquids, 181 (2013) 77–81
    Authors:
    Wojciech Tomczyk
    Academic press:
    Journal of Molecular Liquids (rok: 2017, tom: 230, strony: 59-60), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.molliq.2017.01.002 - link to the publication
  15. Managing numerical errors in random sequential adsorption
    Authors:
    Michał Cieśla, Aleksandra Nowak
    Academic press:
    Surface Science (rok: 2016, tom: 651, strony: 182-186), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.susc.2016.04.014 - link to the publication
  16. Nematic twist–bend phase in an external field
    Authors:
    Grzegorz Pająk, Lech Longa, and Agnieszka Chrzanowska
    Academic press:
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (rok: 2018, tom: 115 (44), strony: 45301), Wydawca: The National Academy of Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1073/pnas.1721786115 - link to the publication
  17. Structure formation in monolayers composed of hard bent-core molecules
    Authors:
    Paweł Karbowniczek, Michał Cieśla, Lech Longa, Agnieszka Chrzanowska
    Academic press:
    Liquid Crystals (rok: 2016, tom: 43, strony: 45310), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/02678292.2016.1259510 - link to the publication
  1. Landau theory of nematic phases
    Authors:
    Lech Longa
    Book:
    BIAXIAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS THEORY, SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT (rok: 2015, tom: 1, strony: 133-149), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published

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