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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 86, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.041704
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Cooperative Research Program of Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23740324] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We investigate theoretically, with the aid of numerical calculations based on a Landau-de Gennes theory, how two cubic cholesteric blue phases of a chiral liquid crystal, BP I and BP II, are stabilized when a guest component, such as a polymer network, is introduced and replace energetically costly defect regions. We show that the temperature range of stable BP I is significantly widened by the guest component, while the stability of BP II is only modestly enhanced.
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