Helical Nano-crystallite (HNC) Phases: Chirality Synchronization of Achiral Bent-Core Mesogens in a New Type of Dark Conglomerates

Photomodulated Supramolecular Chirality in Achiral Photoresponsive Rodlike Compounds Nanosegregated from the Helical Nanofilaments of Achiral Bent-Core Molecules

(2015) Kibeom Kim et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Spontaneous Mirror-Symmetry Breaking in Isotropic Liquid Phases of Photoisomerizable Achiral Molecules

(2015) Mohamed Alaasar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Twist grain boundary (TGB) states of chiral liquid crystalline bent-core mesogens

(2015) Hale Ocak et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Supramolecular Chirality in Self-Assembled Systems

(2015) Minghua Liu et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Mirror Symmetry Breaking by Chirality Synchronisation in Liquids and Liquid Crystals of Achiral Molecules

(2015) Carsten Tschierske et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Possible Influence of Layer Deformation and Chiral Segregation on Dielectric Modes in the Dark Conglomerate Liquid Crystal

(2015) Deepa G. Bhat et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Development of Polar Order in the Liquid Crystal Phases of a 4-Cyanoresorcinol-Based Bent-Core Mesogen with Fluorinated Azobenzene Wings

(2015) Mohamed Alaasar et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Density of heterogeneous and homogeneous crystal nuclei in poly (butylene terephthalate)

(2015) René Androsch et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Supermolecular Bent Configuration Composed of Achiral Flexible Liquid Crystal Trimers Exhibiting Chiral Domains with Opposite Handedness

(2015) Haruna Sasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Probing and Controlling Liquid Crystal Helical Nanofilaments

(2015) Chenhui Zhu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Supramolecular ferroelectrics

(2015) Alok S. Tayi et al.   Nature Chemistry

Understanding the unusual reorganization of the nanostructure of a dark conglomerate phase

(2015) M. Nagaraj et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Colloquium: Geometry and optimal packing of twisted columns and filaments

(2015) Gregory M. Grason   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Physico-chemical confinement of helical nanofilaments

(2015) S. Lee et al.   Soft Matter

Azo-containing asymmetric bent-core liquid crystals with modulated smectic phases

(2015) Nemanja Trišović et al.   RSC Advances

Charge Generation Measured for Fullerene–Helical Nanofilament Liquid Crystal Heterojunctions

(2014) Rebecca A. Callahan et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Dynamic Mirror-Symmetry Breaking in Bicontinuous Cubic Phases

(2014) Christian Dressel et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Origins of Homochirality Examined by Using Asymmetric Autocatalysis

(2014) Kenso Soai et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

Application of electronic circular dichroism in the study of supramolecular systems

(2014) Gennaro Pescitelli et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Local Orientational Analysis of Helical Filaments and Nematic Director in a Nanoscale Phase Separation Composed of Rod-Like and Bent-Core Liquid Crystals Using Small- and Wide-Angle X-ray Microbeam Scattering

(2014) Yoichi Takanishi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Homochiral Columns Constructed by Chiral Self-Sorting During Supramolecular Helical Organization of Hat-Shaped Molecules

(2014) Cécile Roche et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis and structure of lateral halogenated V-shaped liquid crystal molecules based on a 1,7-naphthalene central core and alkylthio tails

(2014) Ting Bao et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Unusual electric-field-induced transformations in the dark conglomerate phase of a bent-core liquid crystal

(2014) M. Nagaraj et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Chiral self-sorting and amplification in isotropic liquids of achiral molecules

(2014) Christian Dressel et al.   Nature Chemistry

Chiral random grain boundary phase of achiral hockey-stick liquid crystals

(2014) Dong Chen et al.   Soft Matter

Development of polar order and tilt in lamellar liquid crystalline phases of a bent-core mesogen

(2014) Mohamed Alaasar et al.   Soft Matter

Dark conglomerate phases of azobenzene derived bent-core mesogens – relationships between the molecular structure and mirror symmetry breaking in soft matter

(2014) Mohamed Alaasar et al.   Soft Matter

Bent-core liquid crystal phases promoted by azo-containing molecules: from monomers to side-chain polymers

(2014) Nélida Gimeno et al.   RSC Advances

4-Methylresorcinol based bent-core liquid crystals with azobenzene wings – a new class of compounds with dark conglomerate phases

(2014) Mohamed Alaasar et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

4-Cyanoresorcinol-Based Bent-Core Mesogens with Azobenzene Wings: Emergence of Sterically Stabilized Polar Order in Liquid Crystalline Phases

(2013) Mohammed Alaasar et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Highly Ordered Helical Nanofilament Assembly Aligned by a Nematic Director Field

(2013) Fumito Araoka et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Liquid Crystalline Phase with Uniform Tilt, Local Polar Order and Capability of Symmetry Breaking

(2013) Mohamed Alaasar et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Induction of Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence from an Achiral Light-Emitting Polymer via a Chiral Small-Molecule Dopant

(2013) Ying Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A General Method for the Enantioselective Formation of Helical Nanofilaments

(2013) Takahiro Ueda et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Modulated Helical Nanofilament Phase

(2013) Ethan Tsai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Development of Structural Complexity by Liquid-Crystal Self-assembly

(2013) Carsten Tschierske   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new room temperature dark conglomerate mesophase formed by bent-core molecules combining 4-iodoresorcinol with azobenzene units

(2013) Mohamed Alaasar et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Physical gels made of liquid crystalline B4 phase

(2013) Anna Zep et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Chiral Isotropic Sponge Phase of Hexatic Smectic Layers of Achiral Molecules

(2013) Dong Chen et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Azo functionalised achiral bent-core liquid crystals: observation of photo-induced effects in B7 and B2 mesophases

(2013) Nagendrappa Gowdru Nagaveni et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Azo-functionalised achiral bent-core liquid crystalline materials: effect of presence of –N=N– linkage at different locations in the molecular architecture

(2013) N.G. Nagaveni et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Influence of halogen substituent on the mesomorphic properties of five-ring banana-shaped molecules with azobenzene wings

(2013) M. Alaasar et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Spontaneous formation of chiral macrostructures in achiral hockey-stick liquid crystals

(2013) Abdelhak Belaissaoui et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Topography of bent-core liquid crystals at the air/liquid crystal interface

(2013) Dong Chen et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Circularly polarized light detection by a chiral organic semiconductor transistor

(2013) Ying Yang et al.   Nature Photonics

Photo and electrically switchable B7 mesophase exhibiting asymmetric bent-core liquid crystals

(2013) Murugesan Vijay Srinivasan et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Electric-field-induced switchable dark conglomerate phases in a bent-core liquid crystal exhibiting reverse columnar phases

(2013) G. B. Deepa 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

Bent-core compounds with two branched chains: evidence of a new dark conglomerate mesophase

(2013) Hale Ocak et al.   Soft Matter

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

(2013) V. Borshch et al.   Nature Communications

Photoresponsive helical nanofilaments of B4 phase

(2013) Anna Zep et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Amplification of the Stereochemistry of Biomolecular Adsorbates by Deracemization of Chiral Domains in Bent-Core Liquid Crystals

(2012) Guksik Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Emerging chirality in nanoscience

(2012) Yong Wang et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Achiral bent-core azo compounds: effect of different types of linkage groups and their direction of linking on liquid crystalline properties

(2012) N. G. Nagaveni et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Banana-shaped molecular architecture: Formation of large columns composed of two concentrically enclosed layers

(2012) Sungmin Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Dual switchable six-ring bent-core liquid crystals with azo linkages exhibiting B1and B2mesophases

(2012) M. Vijaysrinivasan et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Strain glass analogue in a bent-core liquid crystal exhibiting the dark conglomerate phase

(2012) Arun Roy et al.   Soft Matter

Effects of molecular chirality on superstructural chirality in liquid crystalline dark conglomerate phases

(2012) Hale Ocak et al.   Soft Matter

Nanoconfinement of guest materials by helical nanofilament networks of bent-core mesogens

(2012) Dong Chen et al.   Soft Matter

Polar bent-shape liquid crystals – from molecular bend to layer splay and chirality

(2012) A. Eremin et al.   Soft Matter

About collagen, a tribute to Yves Bouligand

(2012) J. Charvolin et al.   Interface Focus

Orientation of a Helical Nanofilament (B4) Liquid-Crystal Phase: Topographic Control of Confinement, Shear Flow, and Temperature Gradients

(2011) Dong Ki Yoon et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-Sorting Phenomena in Complex Supramolecular Systems

(2011) Marina M. Safont-Sempere et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Effect of Lateral Fluorine Substituent on Mesophase Behavior of Bent-shaped Molecules with Asymmetric Central Naphthalene Core

(2011) Xiaodong Li et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Unusual Formation of Switchable Hexagonal Columnar Phase by Bent-Shaped Molecules with Low Bent-Angle Naphthalene Central Core and Alkylthio Tail

(2011) Xiaodong Li et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Chirality-Preserving Growth of Helical Filaments in the B4 Phase of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals

(2011) Dong Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

Polymer crystal–melt interfaces and nucleation in polyethylene

(2011) Scott T. Milner   Soft Matter

On Structure and Properties of Amorphous Materials

(2011) Zbigniew H. Stachurski   Materials

Development of polar order in liquid crystalline phases of a banana compound with a unique sequence of three orthogonal phases

(2010) Christina Keith et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Achiral Bent-Core Molecules with a Series of Linear or Branched Carbosilane Termini: Dark Conglomerate Phases, Supramolecular Chirality and Macroscopic Polar Order

(2010) Yongqiang Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Complex Chirality at the Nanoscale

(2010) Jan P. F. Lagerwall et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Bent-core liquid crystals in a route to efficient organic nonlinear optical materials

(2010) Inmaculada C. Pintre et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

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

Homochirality and chemical evolution: new vistas and reflections on recent models

(2010) Martín Ávalos et al.   TETRAHEDRON-ASYMMETRY

A New Twist on Chirality: Formation of Chiral Phases from Achiral Molecules in “Banana” Liquid Crystals through Elastic Deformations

(2009) Ingo Dierking   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Local structure of the B4 phase studied by second harmonic generation and X-ray diffraction measurements

(2009) Josu Martínez-Perdiguero et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Formation of banana phases in bent-shaped molecules with unusual bent angles as low as 60°

(2009) Seng Kue Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Enhanced Optical Activity by Achiral Rod-Like Molecules Nanosegregated in the B4Structure of Achiral Bent-Core Molecules

(2009) Taketo Otani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chiral Isotropic Liquids from Achiral Molecules

(2009) L. E. Hough et al.   SCIENCE

Helical Nanofilament Phases

(2009) L. E. Hough et al.   SCIENCE

Helical nonracemic tubular coordination polymer gelators from simple achiral molecules

(2008) Shiyong Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Bent-core liquid crystals in the route to functional materials

(2008) Jesús Etxebarria et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Chiral Correlation between Low-Birefringent Phases with Twist Grain Boundary-like Helix and Highly Birefringent Phases with Layer Chirality as Elucidated from Circular Dichroism Observations

(2008) Seng Kue Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Odd–even effect in biphenyl‐based symmetrical dimers with methylene spacer – evidence of the B4 phase

(2008) Ewa Białecka‐Florjańczyk et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Houghet al.Reply:

(2008) Loren E. Hough et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-Assembled Chiral Superstructures Composed of Rigid Achiral Molecules and Molecular Scale Chiral Induction by Dopants

(2008) Fangyong Yan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Experimental Test of Curvature-Driven Dynamics in the Phase Ordering of a Two Dimensional Liquid Crystal

(2008) Alberto Sicilia et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS