関連する実験動画
Updated: Jul 11, 2026

10:35
Novel Techniques for Observing Structural Dynamics of Photoresponsive Liquid Crystals
Published on: May 29, 2018
まとめ
スメクティックA ((*)) 液晶のトウィスト粒の境界モデルが,凍結破裂電子顕微鏡で確認されています. この研究は,超伝導体と同様の螺旋構造と変位格子を示しています.
科学分野:
- 凝縮物質物理学 凝縮物質物理学
- マテリアルサイエンス 材料科学
- 液晶物理学 液晶物理学について
背景:
- スメクティックなA ((*)) 段階では,複雑な構造を示します.
- これらの構造を理解することは,材料科学の応用にとって極めて重要です.
研究 の 目的:
- スメクティック A ((*)) 液晶に対するトウィスト粒の境界モデルを実験的に検証する.
- ナノスケールの構造と,スメクティックA ((*)) 段階の性質を特徴づける.
主な方法:
- フリーズ・フラクチャー・トランスミッション電子顕微鏡 (FFTEM) が採用されました.
- 構造分析には光学微分法が用いられました.
主要な成果:
- FFTEMは,0.5マイクロメートルの螺旋状のピッチと4.1ナノメートルのスメクティック層を持つ波状の断裂表面を明らかにしました.
- 螺旋軸に正常に指向した螺旋の変位の格子が,層を混乱させることが観察されました.
- 光学微分は,スメクティックブロックの17度回転を示し,14〜15 nmの距離と24 nmの距離の粒子の境界との変位を示した.
結論:
- 実験的観測は,レンとルベンスキが提唱したトウィスト粒子の境界モデルを強く支持しています.
- スメクティックA ((*) 段階は,超伝導体におけるアブリコソフ相と構造的類似性を示し,潜在的な液晶類型を強調しています.
関連する概念動画
Phase Transitions
Whether solid, liquid, or gas, a substance's state depends on the order and arrangement of its particles (atoms, molecules, or ions). Particles in the solid pack closely together, generally in a pattern. The particles vibrate about their fixed positions but do not move or squeeze past their neighbors. In liquids, although the particles are closely spaced, they are randomly arranged. The position of the particles are not fixed—that is, they are free to move past their neighbors to occupy...
Phase Transitions
A phase transition is the process in which a substance changes from one state of matter to another, like from a solid to a liquid, liquid to gas, or vice versa, at a specific temperature and under given pressure conditions. This change is spontaneous and is affected by alterations in temperature and pressure. These parameters impact the strength of the forces between molecules (intermolecular forces) in the substance.During a phase transition, both the initial and final phases of the substance...
Phase Transitions: Vaporization and Condensation
The physical form of a substance changes on changing its temperature. For example, raising the temperature of a liquid causes the liquid to vaporize (convert into vapor). The process is called vaporization—a surface phenomenon. Vaporization occurs when the thermal motion of the molecules overcome the intermolecular forces, and the molecules (at the surface) escape into the gaseous state. When a liquid vaporizes in a closed container, gas molecules cannot escape. As these gas phase molecules...
Phase Transitions: Melting and Freezing
Heating a crystalline solid increases the average energy of its atoms, molecules, or ions, and the solid gets hotter. At some point, the added energy becomes large enough to partially overcome the forces holding the molecules or ions of the solid in their fixed positions, and the solid begins the process of transitioning to the liquid state or melting. At this point, the temperature of the solid stops rising, despite the continual input of heat, and it remains constant until all of the solid is...
Phase Diagrams
A phase diagram combines plots of pressure versus temperature for the liquid-gas, solid-liquid, and solid-gas phase-transition equilibria of a substance. These diagrams indicate the physical states that exist under specific conditions of pressure and temperature and also provide the pressure dependence of the phase-transition temperatures (melting points, sublimation points, boiling points). Regions or areas labeled solid, liquid, and gas represent single phases, while lines or curves represent...
Phase Diagram
A phase diagram is a graphical representation of the physical states of a substance under different conditions of temperature and pressure. It shows the boundaries between solid, liquid, and gas phases and the conditions at which these phases coexist in equilibrium. An area in a phase diagram represents a single phase, whereas lines or phase boundaries represent the equilibrium between two phases.In the phase diagram of water, the boundary line between the solid and liquid states illustrates...

