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Inside Back Cover: The Solution of the Puzzle of Smectic‐Q: The Phase Structure and the Origin of Spontaneous Chirality (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 11/2018)
Author(s) -
Lu Huanjun,
Zeng Xiangbing,
Ungar Goran,
Dressel Christian,
Tschierske Carsten
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201801310
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , cover (algebra) , phase (matter) , crystallography , materials science , chemical physics , nanotechnology , stereochemistry , chemistry , physics , chiral symmetry , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , engineering , mechanical engineering , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
Liquid crystals (LC) present a wide diversity of structures, offering many opportunities for their application in nanotechnology. However, for 35 years the structure of one particular LC phase, the Smectic‐Q phase, withstood numerous attempts to solve it. At last the code has been cracked. In their Communication on page 2835 ff., X. B. Zeng, G. Ungar, C. Tschierske et al. show it to be a mind‐boggling array of orthogonal helical columns, homochiral even without molecular chirality.