Dielectric, calorimetric and mesophase properties of 1′′-(2′,4-difluorobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-9′′-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy) nonane: an odd liquid crystal dimer with a monotropic mesophase having the characteristics of a twist-bend nematic phase

Synthesis and characterisation of an unsymmetrical, ether-linked, fluorinated bimesogen exhibiting a new polymorphism containing the NTB or ‘twist-bend’ phase

(2014) R. J. Mandle et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Overall Dielectric Study on the Odd Members of a Highly Nonsymmetric Pyrene-Based Series of Liquid Crystal Dimers

(2013) N. Sebastián et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

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

Flexoelectrically Driven Electroclinic Effect in the Twist-Bend Nematic Phase of Achiral Molecules with Bent Shapes

(2013) C. Meyer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

A universal description of ultraslow glass dynamics

(2013) Julio Cesar Martinez-Garcia et al.   Nature Communications

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

(2013) V. Borshch et al.   Nature Communications

Microscopy studies of the nematic NTBphase of 1,11-di-(1′′-cyanobiphenyl-4-yl)undecane

(2013) Richard J. Mandle et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

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

The new insight into dynamic crossover in glass forming liquids from the apparent enthalpy analysis

(2012) Julio Cesar Martinez-Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Disentangling molecular motions involved in the glass transition of a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal through dielectric studies

(2012) D. O. López et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

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

Flexoelectric and elastic coefficients of odd and even homologous bimesogens

(2012) Katie L. Atkinson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Microsecond linear optical response in the unusual nematic phase of achiral bimesogens

(2011) V. P. Panov et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

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

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

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

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

Nematic-nematic phase transition in the liquid crystal dimer CBC9CB and its mixtures with 5CB: A high-resolution adiabatic scanning calorimetric study

(2011) Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

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

Cylindrical Sub-micrometer Confinement Results for the Odd-Symmetric Dimer α,ω-Bis[(4-cyanobiphenyl)-4′-yloxy]undecane (BCB.O11)

(2010) M. R. de la Fuente et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Dielectric studies of liquid crystals: the influence of molecular shape

(2010) D.A. Dunmur et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Thermodynamically Stable Blue Phases

(2010) F. Castles et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

Study of the Critical Behavior and Scaling Relationships at the N-to-I Phase Transition in Hexyloxycyanobiphenyl

(2009) J. Salud et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Dielectric spectroscopy of unsymmetrical liquid crystal dimers showing wide temperature range TGBA and TGBC* phases

(2009) Abhay S. Pandey et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Biaxial nematics composed of flexible molecules: a molecular field theory

(2009) Geoffrey R. Luckhurst   LIQUID CRYSTALS