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EPSRC Reference: GR/L76648/01
Title: ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS: TAILORING AND UNDERSTANDING NOVEL AND UNUSUAL STATES OF SOFT MATTER
Principal Investigator: Gleeson, Professor H
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QinetiQ
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Organisation: Victoria University of Manchester, The
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 January 1998 Ends: 31 May 2001 Value (£): 95,452
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Materials Characterisation
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This proposal describes a research programme to be carried out in collaboration with Hull University aimed at tailoring and understanding antiferroelectricity in liquid crystals. The primary goal of the physics team at Manchester is make a significant contribution to the understanding of the frustrated phases and sub-phases observed in novel antiferroelectric materials. The phases themselves not only have commercial relevance, but are important at a more fundamental level as the only fluid systems that exhibit properties including ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity. Materials will be designed, synthesised and evaluated that have novel architectures and are suitable for use in commercially viable antiferroelectric liquid crystal devices. We will investigate the materials' properties in the bulk and confined geometries using both known and novel experimental techniques. The structures will be studied both at an optical and molecular level using optical and x-ray diffraction techniques. The frustrated phases observed in the materials to be studied offer unique opportunities to study the origins of ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity in liquid crystal systems.
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