The crystal habit of liquid crystal blue phase I.

01 January 1984

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Large facetted monocrystals of Blue Phase I (BPI) are grown and observed in coexistence with the isotropic liquid. Observations of this three-dimensional polyhedral habit combined with a conjecture that facets perpendicular to screw axes are absent, are compatible with the I(4(1)32) space group for BPI.