Mesophase structure and behaviour in bulk and restricted geometry of a dimeric compound exhibiting a nematic–nematic transition

Similarities and differences between molecular order in the nematic and twist-bend nematic phases of a symmetric liquid crystal dimer

(2016) J. W. Emsley et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Anomalous Increase in Nematic-Isotropic Transition Temperature in Dimer Molecules Induced by a Magnetic Field

(2016) S. M. Salili et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Resonant CarbonK-Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Lattice-Free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: Soft Dilative Elasticity of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase

(2016) Chenhui Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A twist-bend nematic to an intercalated, anticlinic, biaxial phase transition in liquid crystal bimesogens

(2016) Richard J. Mandle et al.   Soft Matter

A molecular theory of nematic–nematic phase transitions in mesogenic dimers

(2016) Alexandros G. Vanakaras et al.   Soft Matter

The stabilisation of the Nx phase in mixtures

(2016) E. Ramou et al.   Soft Matter

Electrically Tunable Selective Reflection of Light from Ultraviolet to Visible and Infrared by Heliconical Cholesterics

(2015) Jie Xiang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Twist-Bend Nematic (NTB) Phase of Chiral Materials

(2015) Ewa Gorecka et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

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

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

Twist, tilt, and orientational order at the nematic to twist-bend nematic phase transition of 1″,9″-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) nonane: A dielectric,H2NMR, and calorimetric study

(2015) Beatriz Robles-Hernández et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Entropy-Driven Chiral Order in a System of Achiral Bent Particles

(2015) Cristina Greco et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

(2015) Anke Hoffmann et al.   Soft Matter

The design and investigation of the self-assembly of dimers with two nematic phases

(2015) Z. Ahmed et al.   RSC Advances

A fibre forming smectic twist–bent liquid crystalline phase

(2015) M. G. Tamba et al.   RSC Advances

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

(2015) Zhaopeng Zhang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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 nematic liquid crystals in high magnetic fields

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

Flexoelectric behavior of bimesogenic liquid crystals in the nematic phase – observation of a new self-assembly pattern at the twist-bend nematic and the nematic interface

(2014) R. Balachandran et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

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

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

(2013) V. Borshch et al.   Nature Communications

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

Nika: software for two-dimensional data reduction

(2012) Jan Ilavsky   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

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

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

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

Observation of a possible tetrahedratic phase in a bent-core liquid crystal

(2008) D. Wiant et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Magnetic-Field Induced Isotropic to Nematic Liquid Crystal Phase Transition

(2008) T. Ostapenko et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS