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A. J. Slaney
Researcher at University of Hull
Publications - 36
Citations - 747
A. J. Slaney is an academic researcher from University of Hull. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liquid crystal & Ferroelectricity. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 36 publications receiving 731 citations. Previous affiliations of A. J. Slaney include Defence Evaluation and Research Agency & Bell Labs.
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Chirality and Frustration in Ordered Fluids
John W. Goodby,A. J. Slaney,Christopher J. Booth,Isa Nishiyama,Jelle D. Vuijk,Peter Styring,Kenneth J. Toyne +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the reduced symmetry aspects of calamitic liquid crystal phases with reference to point symmetry, space symmetry, and helicity is presented, and it is suggested that many novel effects found in chiral liquid crystals are a result of conflicts between the effects of reduced symmetry and the desire to form normal liquid-crystalline structures.
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Chirality in liquid crystals. The remarkable phenylpropiolates
TL;DR: The biphenylyl esters of the 4-n-alkoxyphenylpropiolic acids are a unique family of liquid-crystalline materials.
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Twist inversion in a cholesteric material containing a single chiral centre
TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that the helix inverts because of changes in the populations of conformational isomers, and that these changes are temperature dependent, and an equation that was originally formulated to account for an inversion in the sign of the spontaneous polarization in certain smectic C* materials may be adapted for the modelling of helix inverted inversions.
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Observations of the Liquid-Crystal Analog of the Abrikosov Phase
TL;DR: Observations show that the SmA* phase is the liquid-crystal analog of the Abrikosov phase in superconductors.
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The effect of molecular chirality on the incidence of twisted smectic A phases
A. J. Slaney,John W. Goodby +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, four chiral chloro-esters were synthesized in order to examine systematically the effect that molecular chirality has on the temperature range and incidence of the twisted smectic A phase or the twist grain boundary phase as it has become known.