Miscibility studies of two twist-bend nematic liquid crystal dimers with different average molecular curvatures. A comparison between experimental data and predictions of a Landau mean-field theory for the NTB–N phase transition

Hierarchical elasticity of bimesogenic liquid crystals with twist-bend nematic phase

(2015) Chang-Jun Yun et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Cycles of self-pulsations in a photonic integrated circuit

(2015) Andreas Karsaklian Dal Bosco et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Elastic continuum theory: Towards understanding of the twist-bend nematic phases

(2015) G. Barbero et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

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

Landau theory for helical nematic phases

(2014) E. I. Kats et al.   JETP LETTERS

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

Double-well elastic theory for twist-bend nematic phases

(2014) Epifanio G. Virga   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

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

(2014) Dong Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Predicting a Polar Analog of Chiral Blue Phases in Liquid Crystals

(2014) Shaikh M. Shamid et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A Comparison of the Conformational Distributions of the Achiral Symmetric Liquid Crystal Dimer CB7CB in the Achiral Nematic and Chiral Twist-Bend Nematic Phases

(2013) James W. Emsley et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Elastic properties of bimesogenic liquid crystals

(2013) R. Balachandran et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Enantiotopic discrimination and director organization in the twist-bend nematic phase

(2013) Cristina Greco et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

Statistical mechanics of bend flexoelectricity and the twist-bend phase in bent-core liquid crystals

(2013) Shaikh M. Shamid 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

Liquid crystals of the twenty-first century – nematic phase of bent-core molecules

(2013) A. Jákli   Liquid Crystals Reviews

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

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

Improved analysis of the effect of chain flexibility on the nematic to smectic-A phase transition

(2012) Prabir K. Mukherjee   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

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

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

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

Tests of the tricritical point in the SmA-to-N phase transition of binary mixtures of butyloxybenzylidene octylaniline and hexyloxybenzylidene octylaniline

(2012) J. Salud et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Flexoelectric and elastic coefficients of odd and even homologous bimesogens

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

Multiple nematic phases observed in chiral mesogenic dimers

(2012) Anna Zep et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

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

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

Unusual properties of a bent-core liquid-crystalline fluid

(2008) Verena Görtz et al.   Soft Matter