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

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

Room temperature heliconical twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

(2015) Yuan Wang et al.   CRYSTENGCOMM

Phase ordering of zig-zag and bow-shaped hard needles in two dimensions

(2015) Raffaele Tavarone et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

(2015) G. Barbero 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

Supramolecular nature of the nematic-nematic phase transitions of hard boardlike molecules

(2014) Stavros D. Peroukidis et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Twist-bend nematic liquid crystals in high magnetic fields

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

Electrooptic Response of Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals with Oblique Helicoidal Director

(2014) Jie Xiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

(2014) Cristina Greco et al.   Soft Matter

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

Twisted quasiperiodic textures of biaxial nematic liquid crystals

(2013) V. L. Golo 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

Spontaneously bended nematic and antiferroelectric smectic structures of banana-shaped hard particles in two dimensions

(2012) J. A. Martínez-González et al.   EPL

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

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

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

Banana-calamitic dimers: unexpected mesophase behaviour by variation of the direction of ester linking groups in the bent-core unit

(2010) Maria Gabriela Tamba et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Extending the Maier–Saupe theory to cybotactic nematics

(2010) S. Droulias 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

Nematic phases of bent-core mesogens

(2010) Christina Keith et al.   Soft Matter