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| The liquid crystalline '''blue phase''' is encountered between the isotropic and the [[Chiral phases |chiral nematic phase]]. It usually occupies a narrow range of temperatures, for example, in the range of a half to two degrees. However, recently this range has been expanded by an order of magnitude <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat712 Hirotsugu Kikuchi, Masayuki Yokota, Yoshiaki Hisakado, Huai Yang and Tisato Kajiyama "Polymer-stabilized liquid crystal blue phases", Nature Materials '''1''' pp. 64-68 (2002)]</ref> <ref> [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03932 Harry J. Coles and Mikhail N. Pivnenko "Liquid crystal 'blue phases' with a wide temperature range", Nature '''436''' pp. 997-1000 (2005)]</ref>.
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| ==BP I<sup>*</sup>==
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| ==BP II<sup>*</sup>==
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| ==BP III<sup>*</sup>==
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| Also known as ''blue fog''.
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| <references/>
| | #[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678298608086486 H. Stegemeyer, TH. Blümel, K. Hiltrop, H. Onusseit and F. Porsch "Thermodynamic, structural and morphological studies on liquid-crystalline blue phases", Liquid Crystals '''1''' pp. 3-28 (1986)] |
| '''Related reading'''
| | #[http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03932 Harry J. Coles and Mikhail N. Pivnenko "Liquid crystal 'blue phases' with a wide temperature range", Nature '''436''' pp. 997-1000 (2005)] |
| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678298608086486 H. Stegemeyer, TH. Blümel, K. Hiltrop, H. Onusseit and F. Porsch "Thermodynamic, structural and morphological studies on liquid-crystalline blue phases", Liquid Crystals '''1''' pp. 3-28 (1986)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.61.385 David C. Wright and N. David Mermin "Crystalline liquids: the blue phases", Reviews of Modern Physics '''61''' 385-432 (1989)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97374 Peter Crooker "Blue Phases", in "Chirality in Liquid Crystals" pp. 186-222 Springer New York (2001)]
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| [[Category: Liquid crystals]] | | [[Category: Liquid crystals]] |