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Liquid crystal physics

a periodic undulation of layers in cholesteric or smectic liquid crystals when fields or dilation act along the layer normal.

In liquid crystal physics, Helfrich-Hurault instability refers to a periodic undulation of layers in cholesteric or smectic liquid crystals when fields or dilation act along the layer normal. This meaning comes from Helfrich (1971) in The Journal of Chemical Physics.[1]

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References

Helfrich, W. (1971). Electrohydrodynamic and Dielectric Instabilities of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 55(2), 839-842. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1676151

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