The dependency of twist-bend nematic liquid crystals on molecular structure: a progression from dimers to trimers, oligomers and polymers

Dependence of Mesomorphic Behaviour of Methylene-Linked Dimers and the Stability of the NTB/NXPhase upon Choice of Mesogenic Units and Terminal Chain Length

(2016) Richard J. Mandle et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

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

(2016) Mohamed Alaasar et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Liquid Crystalline Oligomer Exhibiting Nematic and Twist-Bend Nematic Mesophases

(2016) Richard J. Mandle et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Chiral crystals from porphyrinoids possessing a very low racemization barrier

(2016) Justyna Śniechowska et al.   CRYSTENGCOMM

Optically Isotropic Homochiral Structure Produced by Intercalation of Achiral Liquid Crystal Trimers

(2016) Atsushi Yoshizawa et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Binary System Exhibiting the Nematic to Twist-Bend Nematic Transition: Behavior of Permittivity and Elastic Constants

(2016) Srividhya Parthasarathi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Reversible Isothermal Twist–Bend Nematic–Nematic Phase Transition Driven by the Photoisomerization of an Azobenzene-Based Nonsymmetric Liquid Crystal Dimer

(2016) Daniel A. Paterson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

On the twist-bend nematic phase formed directly from the isotropic phase

(2016) Alya A. Dawood et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Three-dimensional control of the helical axis of a chiral nematic liquid crystal by light

(2016) Zhi-gang Zheng et al.   NATURE

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

(2016) D. O. López et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

(2016) N. Sebastián et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

Understanding the twist-bend nematic phase: the characterisation of 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)hexane (CB6OCB) and comparison with CB7CB

(2016) Daniel A. Paterson et al.   Soft Matter

The stabilisation of the Nx phase in mixtures

(2016) E. Ramou et al.   Soft Matter

Achiral flexible liquid crystal trimers exhibiting chiral conglomerates

(2016) Haruna Sasaki et al.   Soft Matter

Second harmonic light scattering induced by defects in the twist-bend nematic phase of liquid crystal dimers

(2016) Shokir A. Pardaev et al.   Soft Matter

Interfacial and morphological features of a twist-bend nematic drop

(2016) Kanakapura S. Krishnamurthy et al.   Soft Matter

Local distortion energy and coarse-grained elasticity of the twist-bend nematic phase

(2016) C. Meyer et al.   Soft Matter

Towards understanding the NTB phase: a combined experimental, computational and spectroscopic study

(2016) Trpimir Ivšić et al.   RSC Advances

Progression from nano to macro science in soft matter systems: dimers to trimers and oligomers in twist-bend liquid crystals

(2016) Richard J. Mandle et al.   RSC Advances

Thermally reversible full color selective reflection in a self-organized helical superstructure enabled by a bent-core oligomesogen exhibiting a twist-bend nematic phase

(2016) Yuan Wang et al.   Materials Horizons

Stimuli-Directing Self-Organized 3D Liquid-Crystalline Nanostructures: From Materials Design to Photonic Applications

(2015) Ling Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

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

(2015) Carsten Tschierske et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Room temperature heliconical twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

(2015) Yuan Wang et al.   CRYSTENGCOMM

The role of hydrogen bonding in the phase behaviour of supramolecular liquid crystal dimers

(2015) Alfonso Martínez-Felipe et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE

Structure–Property Correlations in Cyanobiphenyl-Based Dimer-Like Mesogens

(2015) Rashmi Prabhu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Etheric bimesogens and the twist-bend nematic phase

(2015) Richard J. Mandle et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase?

(2015) Ewa Gorecka et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Hierarchy of Periodic Patterns in the Twist-bend Nematic Phase of Mesogenic Dimers

(2015) Vitaly P. Panov et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Self-organizing behaviour of glycosteroidal bolaphiles: insights into lipidic microsegregation

(2015) R. Xu et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

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

Chiral dopants and the twist-bend nematic phase – induction of novel mesomorphic behaviour in an apolar bimesogen

(2015) Craig T. Archbold et al.   Soft Matter

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

(2015) Anke Hoffmann et al.   Soft Matter

Retraction: Milestone in the NTBphase investigation and beyond: direct insight into molecular self-assembly

(2015) Trpimir Ivšić et al.   Soft Matter

Chiral conglomerates observed for a binary mixture of a nematic liquid crystal trimer and 6OCB

(2015) Atsushi Yoshizawa 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

Light-Directing Chiral Liquid Crystal Nanostructures: From 1D to 3D

(2014) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Banana-calamitic Dimers: Further Variations of the Bent-core Mesogenic Unit

(2014) Maria Gabriela Tamba et al.   FERROELECTRICS

Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. The preparation and characterisation of the α,ω-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) alkanedioates

(2014) Zhibao Lu et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Nanostructure and dielectric properties of a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal mixture

(2014) R.R. Ribeiro de Almeida et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

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

Living liquid crystals

(2014) S. Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2014) Cristina Greco et al.   Soft Matter

Flow properties of a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

(2014) S. M. Salili et al.   RSC Advances

Effects of Geometry and Electronic Structure on the Molecular Self-Assembly of Naphthyl-Based Dimers

(2013) Maja Šepelj et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

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

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

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

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

Nano-Segregation and Directed Self-Assembly in the Formation of Functional Liquid Crystals

(2012) John W. Goodby et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

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

Hybrid rod-like and bent-core liquid crystal dimers exhibiting biaxial smectic A and nematic phases

(2012) Yan Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Correction to “The Chirality of a Twist–Bend Nematic Phase Identified by NMR Spectroscopy”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thermally, photochemically and electrically switchable reflection colors from self-organized chiral bent-core liquid crystals

(2010) Manoj Mathews 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

A new thermotropic reentrant behaviour in a chiral liquid crystal dimer: the occurrence of SmA–SmAb–SmA phase sequence

(2009) Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Order Parameters and Areas in Fluid-Phase Oriented Lipid Membranes Using Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering

(2008) Thalia T. Mills et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Unconventional liquid crystal oligomers with a hierarchical structure

(2008) Atsushi Yoshizawa   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Unusual properties of a bent-core liquid-crystalline fluid

(2008) Verena Görtz et al.   Soft Matter