Research Programme
  • Dielectric, optical, electrooptical and mechanical properties of helical liquid crystals
  • The effect of external weak and strong electric fields on the mentioned properties
  • Mechanisms of long range dipole order in ferroelectric and antiferroelectric smectics
  • Correlation between material properties and molecular structure
  • Frustrations in liquid crystal phases (twist grain boundary and blue phases)
  • Correlation between cell geometry and bulk material properties
  • Co-operative effects responsible for formation of mesophases
  • Dynamics of defects in surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals