Effective Chiral Interactions between Nonchiral Rigid Macromolecules in a Chiral Solvent and the Induced Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Phase

It has been shown that a nonchiral anisotropic macromolecule embedded in chiral dielectric solvent possesses an effective optical activity proportional to the of solvent. As result, there exists interaction between macromolecules, which creates torque acting on primary axes two interacting molecules. A general expression for potential derived terms polarizability and gyration tensor Explicit expressions components have obtained using model hard rod filled with into isotropic medium. The theory predicts formation cholesteric helical structure nematic polymer liquid crystal phase induced by