| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N03358/01 |
| Title: |
(R)MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY LINK BETWEEN MOLECULAR CHIRALITY & BULK CHIRALITY LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Jackson, Professor G |
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| Department: |
Chemical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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ROPA |
| Starts: |
01 December 2000 |
Ends: |
30 November 2002 |
Value (£): |
95,525
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Physical Organic Chemistry |
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| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
| Electronics |
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Chiral nematic (cholesteric) liquid crystals, discovered over a century ago, are central to the manufacture of displays and optoelectronic devices. Although large numbers of chiral mesogens have been synthesised, the link between molecular and bulk chirality (chiral pitch optical rotation) is little understood. We propose an ambitious Monte Carlo simulation study of model chiral mesogens (polar hard spherocylinders with tails) to establish such a link. The most novel features will be the use of tensorial distribution functions with order parameters to characterise and quantify the chirality in nematic phases, as well as the simulation of tilted chiral smectic C* phases with spontaneous ferroelectric order.
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