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Soft Walls and Orientational Singularities in Two-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Films

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Solitons in Liquid Crystals

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A variety of layered liquid crystalline phases composed of rod-shaped molecules (in which their long molecular axes are either perpendicular or tilted with respect to the layer planes) exists. These phases have been mainly classified according to the nature and extent of their structural order which varies from fluid-like to crystalline. 1Young et al.2demonstrated that stable free-standing films of these various layered phases could be prepared and varied in thickness from hundreds to only two molecular layers

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  1. Department of Physics, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA, 95192, USA

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    Jacques Prost

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Pindak, R. (1992). Soft Walls and Orientational Singularities in Two-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Films. In: Lam, L., Prost, J. (eds) Solitons in Liquid Crystals. Partially Ordered Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0917-1_7

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