Three-dimensional ordered structures formed by a chiral liquid crystal

• Project/Area Number: 23740324
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Biophysics/Chemical physics
• Research Institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: FUKUDA Jun-ichi 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, ナノシステム研究部門, 主任研究員 (90392654)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
• Keywords: ソフトマターの物理 / 液晶 / キラリティ / コレステリックブルー相 / 連続体シミュレーション / 電場 / 欠陥 / 溝

Research Abstract

We elucidated, by theoretical arguments, how the stability of cholesteric blue phases, exotic ordered phases of a chiral liquid crystal, is influenced by various factors such as the introduction of a polymer network and the variation of the elastic consta

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Field-induced dynamics and structures in a cholesteric blue phase cell (2013)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Volume: E 87 Issue: 4 Pages: 42506-42506
  • DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.042506
  • Year and Date: 2013-04-22
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Field-induced dynamics and structures in a cholesteric blue phase cell (2013)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Journal Title: published in Physical Review E Volume: 87
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] キラル液晶が薄いセル中でつくる欠陥構造---液晶がつくるスカーミオン格子--- (2013)
  • Author(s): 福田順一，Slobodan Zumer
  • Journal Title: 日本液晶学会誌「液晶」 Volume: 17
  • NAID: 10031167767
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Stability of cholesteric blue phases in the presence of a guest component (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Volume: E 86 Issue: 4
  • DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.041704
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Zigzag line defects and manipulation of colloids in a nematic liquid crystal in microwrinkle grooves (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono and J. Fukuda
  • Journal Title: Nature Communications Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Pages: 701-701
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1709
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Stabilization of blue phases by the variation of elastic constants (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Volume: E 85 Issue: 2
  • DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.020701
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 薄いキラル液晶セルの秩序構造 液晶がつくるスカーミオン格子 (2012)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Journal Title: 日本物理学会誌 Volume: 67 Pages: 636-640
  • NAID: 40019401943
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] ±1/2 wedge disclinations stabilized by a sinusoidal boundary in a thin hybrid nematic liquid crystal film (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono, J. Fukuda, K. Suzuki and T. Yamaguchi
  • Journal Title: Physical Review E Volume: 86 Issue: 3 Pages: 030701-030704
  • DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.030701
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Transition of frustrated nematic order and fluctuation of topological defects in microwrinkle grooves (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono, and J. Fukuda
  • Journal Title: Soft Matter Volume: 8 Issue: 45 Pages: 11552-11556
  • DOI: 10.1039/c2sm26701b
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Confined Colloidal Blue Phases with Potential for Photonics (2012)
  • Author(s): S. Zumer, J. Fukuda and M. Ravnik
  • Journal Title: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Volume: 561 Issue: 1 Pages: 107-114
  • DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2012.687143
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Focal conic in a smectic-A liquid crystal in microwrinkle grooves (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono, Y. Takenaka and J. Fukuda
  • Journal Title: Soft Matter Volume: 8 Issue: 24 Pages: 6438-6444
  • DOI: 10.1039/c2sm25416f
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Theory and simulation of cholesteric blue phases: effect of the elastic constants on the stability of blue phases and the response of a blue phase cell to an electric field (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 8475 Pages: 84750T-84750T
  • DOI: 10.1117/12.929315
• [Journal Article] 薄いキラル液晶セルの秩序構造 ― 液晶がつくるスカーミオン格子 (2012)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Journal Title: 日本物理学会誌 Volume: 67 Pages: 636-640
  • NAID: 40019401943
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Simulation of a cholesteric blue phase in a thin cell: Exotic defect structures and their response to an electric field (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 8279 Pages: 82790V-82790V
  • DOI: 10.1117/12.912825
• [Journal Article] Structural forces in liquid crystalline blue phases (2011)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Journal Title: Physical Review Volume: E 84 Issue: 4
  • DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.040701
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Confining blue phase colloids to thin layers (2011)
  • Author(s): M. Ravnik, J. Fukuda, J.M. Yeomans and S. Zumer
  • Journal Title: Soft Matter Volume: 7 Issue: 21 Pages: 10144-10150
  • DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05707c
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Confined blue phases: trapping of colloidal particles in disclination superstructures (2011)
  • Author(s): S. Zumer, M. Ravnik and J. Fukuda
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 8114 Pages: 811403-811403
  • DOI: 10.1117/12.893160
• [Presentation] 液晶が形成するスカーミオン格子 (2013)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会第68回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 広島大学(広島県)
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-27
• [Presentation] Simulation of Cholesteric Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Cells under an Electric Field (2013)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: 7th International Conference on Molecular Electronics andBioelectronics (M&BE7)
  • Place of Presentation: 7th International Conference on Molecular Electronics andBioelectronics (M&BE7)
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-19
• [Presentation] Exotic defect structures in a strongly confined chiral liquid crystal (2013)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Organizer: Workshop "Liquid crystal defects and blue phase structure; elastomers and related systems''
  • Place of Presentation: Cambridge, UK
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Exotic defect structures and their optical properties in a strongly confined chiral liquid crystal (2013)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Organizer: Optics of Liquid Crystals 2013
  • Place of Presentation: Hawaii, USA
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Cholesteric blue phases under confinement and electric field (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: Workshop on assembling of superstructures in soft matter
  • Place of Presentation: Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  • Year and Date: 2012-10-13
• [Presentation] Theory and simulation of cholesteric blue phases: effect of the elastic constants on the stability ofblue phases and the response of a blue phase cell to an electric field (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: SPIE Optics + Photonics "Liquid Crystals XVI" (Conference 8475)
  • Place of Presentation: San Diego (USA)
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-13
• [Presentation] Simulation of a cholesteric blue phase in a thin cell: exotic defect structures and their response to anelectric field (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: SPIE Photonics West "Emerging Liquid Crystal TechnologiesVII"
  • Place of Presentation: San Francisco (USA)
  • Year and Date: 2012-01-24
• [Presentation] Simulation of a cholesteric blue phase in a thin cell: exotic defect structures and their response to an electric field (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Organizer: SPIE Photonics West "Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies VII"(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: San Francisco, USA
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相が平行平板間に及ぼす力 (2012)
  • Author(s): 福田順一， S. Zumer
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会第67回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 関西学院大学（兵庫県）
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相を閉じ込めると何が起きるか？ (2012)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 液晶微界面ＰＪ記念シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 東京理科大学森戸記念館（東京都）
• [Presentation] キラル液晶セルの連続体シミュレーション (2012)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: nano tech 2012 第11回 国際ナノテクノロジー総合展・技術会議
  • Place of Presentation: 東京ビックサイト（東京都）
• [Presentation] Simulation of cholesteric blue phase cells (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Organizer: Phase Transition Dynamics in Soft Matter : Bridging Microscale and Mesoscale
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学基礎物理学研究所(京都府)
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相液晶セルのシミュレーション (2012)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: ＮＢＣＩ「TIA-nanoの見える化」第２回講演会(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: 日本教育会館（東京都）
• [Presentation] Skyrmions and other exotic defect structures in a confined chiral liquid crystal (2011)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop on Liquid CrystalColloids
  • Place of Presentation: Lviv (Ukraine)
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-03
• [Presentation] 薄いセルに閉じ込めたコレステリックブルー相の欠陥構造 (2011)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 第1回ソフトマター研究会
  • Place of Presentation: キャンパスプラザ京都(京都府)
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-03
• [Presentation] Skyrmions and exotic defect structure of a confined chiral liquid crystal (2011)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Organizer: Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals
  • Place of Presentation: Mount Holyoke College, USA
• [Presentation] キラル液晶セルが形成するスカーミオン格子 (2011)
  • Author(s): 福田順一， S. Zumer
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会2011年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 富山大学五福キャンパス（富山県）
• [Presentation] 薄いセル中のキラル液晶が形成する欠陥構造-液晶が形成するスカーミオン格子 (2011)
  • Author(s): 福田順一， S. Zumer
  • Organizer: 2011年日本液晶学会討論会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京都市大学 世田谷キャンパス（東京都）
• [Presentation] 電界により変歪したコレステリックブルー相の光学特性解析 (2011)
  • Author(s): 小川康宏，福田順一， 吉田浩之，藤井彰彦，尾崎雅則
  • Organizer: 2011年日本液晶学会討論会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京都市大学 世田谷キャンパス（東京都）
• [Presentation] Photonic Band Analysis of Cholesteric Blue Phases Deformed by an Electric Field (2011)
  • Author(s): 小川康宏，福田順一， 吉田浩之，藤井彰彦，尾崎雅則
  • Organizer: ECO-MATES 2011
  • Place of Presentation: ホテル阪急エキスポパーク（大阪府）
• [Presentation] Skyrmions and other exotic defect structures in a confined chiral liquid crystal (2011)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop on Liquid Crystal Colloids(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: Lviv, Ukraine
• [Presentation] 薄いセルに閉じ込めたコレステリックブルー相の欠陥構造 (2011)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 第１回ソフトマター研究会(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: キャンパスプラザ京都（京都府）
• [Presentation] Confined blue phases: trapping of colloidal particles in new disclination superstructures (2011)
  • Author(s): S. Zumer, M. Ravnik and J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: SPIE Optics+Photonics Conference 8114 Liquid Crystals XV(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: San Diego, USA
• [Presentation] Confined colloidal blue phases with potential for photonics (2011)
  • Author(s): S. Zumer,J. Fukuda and M. Ravnik
  • Organizer: Optics of Liquid Crystals(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: Yerevan, Armenia
• [Presentation] キラル液晶セルが形成する種々の欠陥秩序構造 (2011)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 日本学術振興会142委員会研究会(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: 東京理科大学森戸記念館（東京都）
• [Presentation] 2D and 3D blue phase colloidal crystals (2011)
  • Author(s): M. Ravnik, G. Alexander, J. Fukuda, J.M. Yeomans, and S.Zumer
  • Organizer: Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop on Liquid Crystal Colloids(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: Lviv, Ukraine
• [Presentation] キラル液晶セルの連続体シミュレーション (2011)
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: NIMS-NRI(AIST)計測・計算シミュレーション合同WS
  • Place of Presentation: 産総研つくば中央（茨城県）
• [Presentation] 液晶が形成するスカーミオン格子
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会第68回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 広島大学
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Simulation of Cholesteric Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Cells under an Electric Field
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: 7th International Conference on Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics (M&BE7)
  • Place of Presentation: 福岡
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Cholesteric blue phases under confinement and electric field
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: Workshop on assembling of superstructures in soft matter
  • Place of Presentation: Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Invited
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相の理論・シミュレーションによる研究
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 第61回高分子討論会
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋工業大学
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相の安定性に対する弾性定数の影響
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 2012年日本液晶学会討論会
  • Place of Presentation: 千葉大学
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相液晶セルのシミュレーション
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: つくばソフトマター研究会2012
  • Place of Presentation: 東海村
• [Presentation] Defect structures of a cholesteric blue phase under strong confinement: Hexagonal Skyrmion lattice and other exotic arrangements
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer
  • Organizer: The 24th International Liquid Crystal Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Mainz, Germany
• [Presentation] Theory and simulation of cholesteric blue phases: effect of the elastic constants on the stability of blue phases and the response of a blue phase cell to an electric field
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: SPIE Optics + Photonics "Liquid Crystals XVI" (Conference 8475)
  • Place of Presentation: San Diego, USA
  • Invited
• [Presentation] ブルー相に関する『誤解』を正す？
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 第11回日本液晶学会ソフトマターフォーラム講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
  • Invited
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相液晶セルの電場応答のシミュレーション
  • Author(s): 福田順一
  • Organizer: 第2回ソフトマター研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 福岡
• [Presentation] Photonic Band Structure Analysis of Cholesteric Blue Phases Deformed by Applying Electric Field
  • Author(s): 小川康宏，福田順一，吉田浩之，尾崎雅則
  • Organizer: 7th International Conference on Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics (M&BE7)
  • Place of Presentation: 福岡
• [Presentation] マイクロリンクル溝に閉じ込めた液晶の自発的な周期欠陥構造形成
  • Author(s): 大園拓哉，福田順一，武仲能子
  • Organizer: 分子ナノシステムの創発化学領域終了シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
• [Presentation] Transition of frustrated nematic order and fluctuation of topological defects microwrinkle grooves
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono and J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: The international symposium "Self-organization and emergent dynamics in active soft matter"
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学
• [Presentation] マイクロリンクルの溝に閉じ込められた液晶の自己組織化配向パターン
  • Author(s): 大園拓哉，福田順一
  • Organizer: 第22回「非線形反応と協同現象研究会」
  • Place of Presentation: お茶の水女子大学
• [Presentation] Focal conic domains of smectic-A liquid crystal in microwrinkle grooves
  • Author(s): T, Ohzono, Y. Takenaka and J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: アジア液晶国際会議
  • Place of Presentation: 富士吉田
• [Presentation] ネマチック液晶のジグザグ線欠陥のゆらぎの温度依存性
  • Author(s): 大園拓哉，福田順一
  • Organizer: 日本液晶学会ソフトマターフォーラム
  • Place of Presentation: 弘前大学
• [Presentation] マイクロリンクルの溝構造に誘起される周期的液晶微細構造
  • Author(s): 大園拓哉，福田順一
  • Organizer: 高分子討論会
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋工業大学
• [Presentation] マイクロリンクルの溝に閉じ込められた液晶における周期的欠陥構造
  • Author(s): 大園拓哉，福田順一
  • Organizer: 2012年日本液晶学会討論会
  • Place of Presentation: 千葉大学
• [Presentation] Zigzag line defects in a nematic liquid crystal in microwrinkle grooves
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono and J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: The 24th International Liquid Crystal Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Mainz, Germany
• [Presentation] Periodic defects in liquid crystals confined within microwrinkle grooves
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono and J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: The 6th Japanese-Italian Workshop on Liquid Crystals
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
• [Presentation] Zigzag line defects in a nematic liquid crystal in microwrinkle grooves
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono and J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: LB14 (ICOMF)
  • Place of Presentation: Paris, France
• [Presentation] Photonic Band Structure Analysis of Cholesteric Blue Phases Deformed by Applying Electric Field
  • Author(s): 小川康宏，福田順一，吉田浩之，尾崎雅則
  • Organizer: The 6th Japanese-Italian Workshop on Liquid Crystals
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
• [Presentation] Theoretical study on the stability of cholesteric blue phases
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: The 6th Japanese-Italian Workshop on Liquid Crystals
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相の数値シミュレーション
  • Author(s): 福田 順一
  • Organizer: 第6回自己組織化討論会
  • Place of Presentation: つくばセミナーハウス
• [Presentation] Liquid Crystal in Microwrinkle Grooves: Periodic Ordering and Defects
  • Author(s): T. Ohzono and J. Fukuda
  • Organizer: Frontiers of Soft Matter 2012
  • Place of Presentation: University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
• [Presentation] コレステリックブルー相の構造とその安定性に関する理論的研究
  • Author(s): 福田順一，菊池裕嗣
  • Organizer: 第２回物質・デバイス領域共同研究拠点 活動報告会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京工業大学
• [Presentation] Finite-Difference Time-Domain Analysis of Transmission Properties of Cholesteric Blue Phase II Deformed by an Electric Field
  • Author(s): 小川康宏，福田順一，吉田浩之，藤井彰彦，尾崎雅則
  • Organizer: The 24th International Liquid Crystal Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Mainz, Germany
• [Book] Progress in LC Science and Technology, in Honor of Professor Kobayashi's 80th Birthday (2013)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer (edited by H.S. Kwok, S.Naemura, and H.L. Ong)
  • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• [Book] Progress in LC Science and Technology, in Honor of Professor Kobayashi’s 80th Birthday (2013)
  • Author(s): J. Fukuda and S. Zumer (edited by H.S. Kwok, S. Naemura, and H.L. Ong)
  • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
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• [Remarks] Cholesteric blue phases
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• [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 液晶配向構造体の製造方法 (2012)
  • Inventor(s): 大園拓哉,福田順一
  • Industrial Property Rights Holder: 産業技術総合研究所
  • Industrial Property Number: 2012-025141
  • Filing Date: 2012-02-08
• [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 液晶配向構造体の製造方法 (2012)
  • Inventor(s): 大園拓哉，福田順一
  • Industrial Property Rights Holder: 産業技術総合研究所
  • Industrial Property Number: 2012-025141
  • Filing Date: 2012