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Elastic properties of liquid crystal blue phases

2017/25/B/ST3/00564

Keywords:

liquid crystals blue phases soft matter elasticity elastic moduli auxetics electro-optical effects Kerr constants

Descriptors:

  • ST3_15: Statistical physics of condensed matter, phase transitions, noise and fluctuations, etc.

Panel:

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

Host institution :

Instytut Fizyki Molekularnej Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. wielkopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Arkadiusz Brańka 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 5

Call: OPUS 13 - announced on 2017-03-15

Amount awarded: 533 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-01-09

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-01-08

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Wyposażenie rozszerzające możliwości pomiarowe skaningowego fluorescencyjnego mikroskopu (25 000 PLN)
  2. Zestaw stabilizacji temperatury (45 000 PLN)
  3. Zestaw obliczeniowy ( Laptop, PC i drukarka) (9 000 PLN)
  4. Rozszerzenie zestawu do przygotowywania komórek pomiarowych (41 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (5)
  1. Phase Transitions and Physical Properties by a Color texture analysis: Results for Liquid Crystals
    Authors:
    S. Pieprzyk, T. Yevchenko, D. Dardas, A. C. Brańka
    Academic press:
    Journal of Molecular Liquids (rok: 2022, tom: 362, strony: 119669), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119699 - link to the publication
  2. Determining the Kerr constant in optically isotropic liquid crystals
    Authors:
    Tetiana Yevchenko, Dorota Dardas,† Wojciech Kuczyński, and Arkadiusz C. Branka
    Academic press:
    Physical Reviw E (rok: 2022, tom: 106, strony: 14701), Wydawca: APS
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevE.106.014701 - link to the publication
  3. Tuning the electro-optic and viscoelastic properties of ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials
    Authors:
    Dorota Dardas
    Academic press:
    Rheologica Acta (rok: 2019, tom: 58, strony: 193-201), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s00397-019-01129-z - link to the publication
  4. Angular dependence of the linear and nonlinear electro-optic responses in a polar smectic liquid crystal
    Authors:
    Kamila Nowicka, Wojciech Kuczyński
    Academic press:
    LIQUID CRYSTALS (rok: 2019, tom: 46, strony: 977-985), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis Group
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/02678292.2018.1542745 - link to the publication
  5. Another Look at Auxeticity of 2D Square Media
    Authors:
    N. Bielejewska, A.C. Brańka, S. Pieprzyk, T. Yevchenko
    Academic press:
    Physica Status Solidi B (rok: 2020, tom: 257, strony: 202000485), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/pssb.202000485 - link to the publication