Smectic films

Thermotropic free-standing films

Physics of smectic membranes

P. Pieranski, L. Beliard, J-Ph Tournellec, X. Leoncini, C. Furtlehner, H. Dumoulin, E. Riou et al.

"Physics of smectic membranes."

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 194, no. 1-4 (1993): 364-389.

I. Kraus, P.Pieranski, E. Demikhov, H. Stegemeyer and J. Goodby.

"Destruction of a first-order smectic-A→ smectic-C* phase transition by dimensional crossover in free-standing films."

Physical Review E 48, no. 3 (1993): 1916

I. Kraus, P. Pieranski, E. Demikhov, H. Stegemeyer, J. Goodby, A. Slaney, and M. Osipov.

"Surface Ordering and Finite‐size Effects at the First Order Phase Transition SmA‐SmC in Liquid‐crystalline Free‐standing Films."

Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie 97, no. 10 (1993): 1376-1380.

I. Kraus, C.Bahr and Pawel Pieranski.

"Mechanical perturbation applied on freely suspended smectic films."

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 262, no. 1 (1995): 1-12.

I. Kraus, C. Bahr and Pawel Pieranski.

"Mechanical properties of freely suspended smectic films."

Journal de Physique II 7, no. 11 (1997): 1617-1634.

Lyotropic free-standing films

P. Pieranski

« Physics of Free-Standing Lyotropic Films »,

Materials 7 (2014) 3453-3469