Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. The preparation and characterisation of the α,ω-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) alkanedioates

Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of chiral liquid crystal dimers derived from azobenzene and substituted naphthol

(2013) Guan-Yeow Yeap et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Cholesterol-based dimeric liquid crystals: synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour of frustrated phases and DFT study

(2013) Dipika Debnath Sarkar et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Elastic properties of bimesogenic liquid crystals

(2013) R. Balachandran et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Chemically induced twist-bend nematic liquid crystals, liquid crystal dimers, and negative elastic constants

(2013) K. Adlem et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Chiral solutes can seed the formation of enantiomorphic domains in a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

(2013) James W. Emsley et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

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

(2013) D. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Field-induced periodic chiral pattern in the Nx phase of achiral bimesogens

(2012) V. P. Panov et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Non-symmetric liquid crystal dimer containing a carbohydrate-based moiety

(2012) Andrew G. Cook et al.   CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH

Hybrid rod-like and bent-core liquid crystal dimers exhibiting biaxial smectic A and nematic phases

(2012) Yan Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

The Chirality of a Twist–Bend Nematic Phase Identified by NMR Spectroscopy

(2012) Laetitia Beguin et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Dielectric behaviour of a ferroelectric liquid crystal dimer

(2012) Swadesh Kumar Gupta et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Novel discotic liquid crystal oligomers: 1,3,5-triazine-based triphenylene dimer and trimer with wide mesophase

(2012) Fafu Yang et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Oxadiazole-based non-symmetric liquid crystalline trimers terminating with ferrocene and cholesterol units exhibiting TGBC* phase over a wide thermal range

(2012) K.C. Majumdar et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

The influence of structural changes of symmetrical dimers containing two phenyl groups on liquid crystalline behaviour

(2012) Ewa Białecka-Florjańczyk et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Non-symmetric chiral isoflavone dimers: synthesis, characterisation and mesomorphic behaviour

(2012) Guan-Yeow Yeap et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

T-shaped non-symmetrical twin liquid crystalline compounds

(2012) M.C. Varia et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

H-shaped azoester-oxymethylene containing twin liquid crystalline compounds

(2012) M. C. Varia et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Novel triphenylene−ammonium−ammonium−triphenylene-based discotic ionic liquid crystalline dimers

(2012) Satyam Kumar Gupta et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Oxadiazole-based unsymmetrical chiral liquid crystal dimers: synthesis and mesomorphic properties

(2012) K.C. Majumdar et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Triphenylene-based discotic liquid crystals: star-shaped oligomers and branched-chain polymers

(2012) Ahmed El Mansoury et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers containing an isoflavone moiety

(2012) Tze-Nee Chan et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Synthesis and thermal behavior of chiral dimers: occurrence of highly frustrated and cholesteric liquid crystal phases

(2012) G. Shanker et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Increasing the flexoelastic ratio of liquid crystals using highly fluorinated ester-linked bimesogens

(2012) Katie L. Atkinson et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Symmetric Liquid Crystal Dimers Containing a Luminescent Mesogen: Synthesis, Mesomorphic Behavior, and Optical Properties

(2012) Luminita Marin et al.   SOFT MATERIALS

Crucial role of molecular curvature for the bend elastic and flexoelectric properties of liquid crystals: mesogenic dimers as a case study

(2011) Mirko Cestari et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Chiral liquid crystal tetramers

(2011) Toby Donaldson et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Dielectric and Thermodynamic Study on the Liquid Crystal Dimer α-(4-Cyanobiphenyl-4′-oxy)-ω-(1-pyreniminebenzylidene-4′-oxy)undecane (CBO11O·Py)

(2011) N. Sebastián et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

New symmetric azomethinic dimer: the influence of structural heterogeneity on the liquid crystalline behaviour

(2011) Luminita Marin et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Isotropic liquid–ferrielectric smectic C phase transition observed in a chiral nonsymmetric dimer

(2011) Anna Noji et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Photochromic azobenzene functionalised banana–calamitic dimers and trimers: mesophase behaviour and photo-orientational phenomena

(2011) Maria-Gabriela Tamba et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

H-shaped liquid crystalline dimers

(2011) Milena Kołpaczyńska et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Thermodynamic, optical and dielectric properties of the twisted grain boundary phases of the homologous series of 4-n-alkyloxy-4′-(cholesteryloxycarbonyl-1-butyloxy) chalcone

(2011) Abhay S. Pandey et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

H-shaped mesogenic dimers containing polar -NO2/-Cl terminus

(2011) A.K. Prajapati et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

The phase transition behaviour and electro-rheological effect of liquid crystalline siloxane dimers

(2011) T. Hanasaki et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Unsymmetrical cholesterol and benzoxazole-based liquid crystalline dimers: synthesis and characterisation

(2011) K.C. Majumdar et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Anthraquinone-based discotic liquid crystals: new monomers and dimers

(2011) Veena Prasad et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Non-symmetric chiral liquid crystal trimers

(2011) Toby Donaldson et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Methylene-linked liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase

(2011) Peter A. Henderson et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Cholesteryl-based liquid crystal dimers containing a sulfur–sulfur link in the flexible spacer

(2011) Huey-Charn Lee et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

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

(2011) M. Cestari et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Effect of Molecular Flexibility on the Nematic-to-Isotropic Phase Transition for Highly Biaxial Molecular Non-Symmetric Liquid Crystal Dimers

(2011) Nerea Sebastián et al.   Materials

Symmetric and non-symmetric chiral liquid crystal dimers

(2010) T. Donaldson et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Synthesis, thermal and optical behaviour of non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers α-(4-benzylidene-substituted-aniline-4′-oxy)-ω-[pentyl-4-(4′-phenyl)benzoateoxy]hexane

(2010) Guan-Yeow Yeap et al.   PHASE TRANSITIONS

Spontaneous Periodic Deformations in Nonchiral Planar-Aligned Bimesogens with a Nematic-Nematic Transition and a Negative Elastic Constant

(2010) V. P. Panov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Reduced odd–even effects in liquid crystalline carbonate dimers: molecular field analysis

(2009) Roberto Centore   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Liquid crystal oligomers: going beyond dimers

(2009) Corrie T. Imrie et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Why do non-symmetric dimers intercalate? The synthesis and characterisation of the α-(4-benzylidene-substituted-aniline-4′-oxy)-ω-(2-methylbutyl-4′-(4″-phenyl)benzoateoxy)alkanes

(2009) Guan-Yeow Yeap et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS