Seminarium Fizyki Materii Skondensowanej

Bicontinuous cubic phases are the most interesting phases encountered inlyotropic liquid crystals. I will compare the results of the experimentson formation of monocrystals and thin films of bicontinuous phases withthe theoretical calculations performed within the framework of aLandau-Brazovskii type theory. The main goal of the work is theinvestigation of the deformation of the structure of the bicontinuousphases at the boundary with the isotropic phase for different facets ofthe monocrystals.