Liquid crystalline systems exhibiting both macroscopic chirality and smectic order experience frustration resulting in mesophases possessing complex three-dimensional order. In the twist-grain-boundary phase, defect lattices mediate the propagation of twist throughout the system. We propose a new chiral smectic structure composed of a lattice of chiral bundles as a model of the helical nanofilament (B4) phase of bent-core smectics. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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Matsumoto, E. A., Alexander, G. P., & Kamien, R. D. (2009). Helical nanofilaments and the high chirality limit of smectics A. Physical Review Letters, 103(25). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.257804
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