title: Facets of lyotropic liquid crystals.
abstract: The bicontinuous lyotropic liquid phases surrounded by the isotropic phase form monocrystals with well-developed facets. We investigate the structure and stability of the facets formed by the bicontinuous phase of Pn3̅m symmetry, at three preferred directions, which are developed on a spherical droplet of Pn3̅m phase surrounded by the isotropic phase. The structure of the facets is obtained by minimization of the Landau-Brazovskii functional with one scalar order parameter.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physical Chemistry , Polish Academy of Sciences , Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Latypova
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Góźdź
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pierański