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Critical Soft Matter
$: NSF, Simons Foundation Boulder Summer School, July 2015
Soft Matter In and Out of Equilibrium
Leo Radzihovsky
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Outline
• Introduction and motivation �
• Critical states of matter�
• Smectics�
• Cholesterics�
• Columnar phase�
• Polymerized membranes�
• Elastomers�
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Critical soft matter
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Liquid crystal phases
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Undulation instability on dilation
H � B
2��zu +
12(�u)2
�2 +K
2(�2u)2
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Chiral liquid crystals: cholesterics
cholesteric pitch
• color selective Bragg reflection � from cholesteric planes��• temperature tunable pitch -> wavelength �
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Chirality in liquid crystal N. Clark
“Liquid crystals are beautiful and mysterious; I am fond of them for both reasons.” – P.-G. De Gennes�
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Bio-polymer liquid crystals: DNA
M. Nakata, N. Clark, et al
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Nematic Elastomer cross-linked polymer liquid crystal PLC
polymer nematic liquid-crystal
Terentjev Finkelmann Ratna
“Solid” Liquid-Crystal exhibits most conventional liquid-crystal phases (I, N, Sm-A, Sm-C,…)
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Nematic Elastomer Terentjev Finkelmann Ratna
“Solid” Liquid-Crystal
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Thermal response and stress-strain relation
• spontaneous distortion (~ 400%) at T , thermoelastic • “soft” elasticity • giant electrostriction
IN Properties:
• plastic displays • switches • actuators • artificial muscle
Applications:
Terentjev, et al
stre
ss
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H. Finkelmann, Shahinpoor, et al
Nematic elastomer as heat engine
n
• monodomain nematic LCE�
• 5cm x 5mm x 0.3mm�
• lifts 30g wt. on heating, lowers it on cooling �
• large strain (>400%)�
(P. M-Palffy) η 105Pa
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Visualization of soft deformation
Warner, Terentjev ’90 Olmsted ‘94
a “liquid” solid <--> a “solid” ! liquid crystal�
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• Vanishing energy cost for: • Harmonic elasticity about nematic state:
• Nonlinear elasticity about nematic state:
Must incorporate underlying rotational invariance of the nematic state some distortions cost no energy: “soft” uniaxial solid
Elastic theory of NE • Construct rotationally invariant elastic theory of deformations about • Study fluctuations and heterogeneities about
0 , required by rotational invariance
Xing + L.R., PRL, EPL, AOP Lubensky + Stenull, EPL (2003)
u� ⇥ (r � 1)2⇤
r
�0 �� 0
⇥= (Λ0
T)-1 δu Λ0-1
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• Thermal fluctuations:
• Heterogeneity random torques and stresses: nematic elastomers are only statistically homogeneous
and isotropic
Fluctuations and heterogeneity
Elastic “softness” leads to strong qualitative effects of thermal fluctuations and network heterogeneity
encodes heterogeneity
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• Universal elasticity:
• Non-Hookean elasticity:
• Length-scale dependent elastic moduli:
• Macroscopically incompressible:
• Universal Poisson ratios:
Predictions
vanishing slope no linear response
Xing + L.R., PRL (2003)
(cf. non-Fermi liquid)
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