The two-dimensional presentation of the three-dimensional nematic liquid crystal structure can be visualized in various ways: by oriented rotational ellipsoids, bricks, cylinders, or sticks, representing either individual molecules or nematic director field. Here, we give a different approach: the three axes of Cartesian coordinate system are assigned with three colors (red for x-axis, green for y-axis and blue for z-axis). We use the proportional mixing of these colors for various directions of the nematic director. Using this technique, different structures of nematic liquid crystals can be visualized clearly, particularly when combined with representation of nematic director field with sticks.
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This contribution presented examples of measurement results with THz system and potential industrial applications
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The structural and thermodynamic phase behavior of the thermotropic liquid crystal dodecylcyanobiphenyl (12CB) confined in controlled-pore glasses (CPGs) has been studied by means of high-resolution calorimetry and small-angle X-ray scattering. Non-treated CPG matrices have been used with a characteristic pore size R ranging from nanometre to micrometre scale. Even in the case of the strongest confinement the isotropic-to-smectic-A (I-SmA) transition was pronounced. The observed behavior is explained using scaling and dimensional analysis within the Landau-Ginzburg-de Gennes mesoscopic approach.
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