Topics of the school

  • Chirality in nature
  • Polar order in chiral liquid crystals
  • Structures and phase transitions
  • Correlation between molecular structure and properties of chiral smectic liquid crystals
  • Orthoconic smectics
  • Bulk properties
  • Surface stabilization
  • Theory of phase transitions
  • Methods of investigation
  • Sample preparation
  • Switching
  • Applications