Concepedia

Phase behaviors of classic liquid crystal dimers and trimers: Alternate induction of smectic and twist-bend nematic phases depending on spacer parity for liquid crystal trimers

Yuki Arakawa, Kenta Komatsu, Takuma Shiba, Hideto Tsuji

Journal of Molecular Liquids · 2021 · 33 citations · 85 references

DOI

Concepts

References

85

Spontaneous Formation of Macroscopic Chiral Domains in a Fluid Smectic Phase of Achiral Molecules

Darren R. Link, Giorgio Natale, Renfan Shao et al. · Science · 1997 · 1.2K citations

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

Volodymyr Borshch, Y.-K. Kim, Jie Xiang et al. · Nature Communications · 2013 · 643 citations · Full text

Phase behavior and properties of the liquid-crystal dimer 1′′,7′′-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) heptane: A twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

Mirko Cestari, S. Diez‐Berart, D. A. Dunmur et al. · Physical Review E · 2011 · 623 citations

, , +13

On the spontaneous symmetry breaking in the mesophases of achiral banana-shaped molecules

I. Dozov · Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 2001 · 548 citations

, , +21

Chiral heliconical ground state of nanoscale pitch in a nematic liquid crystal of achiral molecular dimers

Dong Chen, Jan H. Porada, Justin B. Hooper et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 511 citations · Full text