Raman scattering studies of order parameters in liquid crystalline dimers exhibiting the nematic and twist-bend nematic phases

Apolar Bimesogens and the Incidence of the Twist-Bend Nematic Phase

(2015) Richard J. Mandle et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase?

(2015) Ewa Gorecka et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

On the structure of the Nx phase of symmetric dimers: inferences from NMR

(2015) Anke Hoffmann et al.   Soft Matter

The temperature dependence of the heliconical tilt angle in the twist-bend nematic phase of the odd dimer CB7CB

(2015) C. Meyer et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

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

(2014) N. Sebastián et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Twist-bend heliconical chiral nematic liquid crystal phase of an achiral rigid bent-core mesogen

(2014) Dong Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Twist-bend nematic liquid crystals in high magnetic fields

(2014) P. K. Challa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Molecular geometry, twist-bend nematic phase and unconventional elasticity: a generalised Maier–Saupe theory

(2014) Cristina Greco et al.   Soft Matter

Elastic properties of bimesogenic liquid crystals

(2013) R. Balachandran et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

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

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

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

(2013) V. Borshch et al.   Nature Communications

The influence of structure on the elastic, optical and dielectric properties of nematic phases formed from bent-core molecules

(2013) S. Kaur et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

Orientational order parameters of a de Vries–type ferroelectric liquid crystal obtained by polarized Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction

(2012) A. Sanchez-Castillo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Understanding the distinctive elastic constants in an oxadiazole bent-core nematic liquid crystal

(2012) S. Kaur et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Unexpected liquid crystalline behaviour of three-ring bent-core mesogens: bis(4-subst.-phenyl) 2-methyl-iso-phthalates

(2012) Wolfgang Weissflog et al.   Soft Matter

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

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

Comment on “Raman Scattering Study of Phase Biaxiality in a Thermotropic Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal”

(2011) H. F. Gleeson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Optical measurements of orientational order in uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals

(2010) H.F. Gleeson et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

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

Competition, resolution, and rotational motion in frustrated liquid crystals

(2008) John W. Goodby et al.   COMPTES RENDUS CHIMIE

Thermotropic biaxial nematic order parameters and phase transitions deduced by Raman scattering

(2008) C. D. Southern et al.   EPL

Unusual properties of a bent-core liquid-crystalline fluid

(2008) Verena Görtz et al.   Soft Matter