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

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

Synthesis of achiral four-ring unsymmetrically substituted toluene derived liquid crystals with a polar end group

(2012) Dipika Debnath Sarkar et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Transitions between paraelectric and ferroelectric phases of bent-core smectic liquid crystals in the bulk and in thin freely suspended films

(2012) Alexey Eremin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Why Are Biological Systems Homochiral?

(2011) Virgil Percec et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Development of polar order in a bent-core liquid crystal with a new sequence of two orthogonal smectic and an adjacent nematic phase

(2011) Govindaswamy Shanker et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Photochromic azobenzene functionalised banana–calamitic dimers and trimers: mesophase behaviour and photo-orientational phenomena

(2011) Maria-Gabriela Tamba et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Sequence of Four Orthogonal Smectic Phases in an Achiral Bent-Core Liquid Crystal: Evidence for theSmAPαPhase

(2011) Y. P. Panarin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Randomly polarised smectic A phase exhibited by bent-core molecules: experimental and theoretical studies

(2011) Meenal Gupta et al.   Soft Matter

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

An optically uniaxial antiferroelectric smectic phase in asymmetrical bent-core compounds containing a 3-aminophenol central unit

(2010) Kinga Gomola et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Biaxial nematic phases

(2010) Carsten Tschierske 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

Silylated bent-core molecules: the influence of the direction of the carboxyl connecting groups on the mesophase behaviour

(2010) Ramaiahgari Amaranatha Reddy et al.   Soft Matter

Nematic phases of bent-core mesogens

(2010) Christina Keith et al.   Soft Matter

First symmetrical banana compounds exhibiting SmAPR mesophase and unique transition between two orthogonal polar phases

(2009) Kinga Gomola et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Self-assembly of bent-core liquid crystals: formation of a modulated smectic phase with p2gg lattice to escape anticlinic tilt

(2009) R. Amaranatha Reddy et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Spontaneous Chirality Induction and Enantiomer Separation in Liquid Crystals Composed of Achiral Rod-Shaped 4-Arylbenzoate Esters

(2009) Hyeon Su Jeong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Spontaneously chiral domains of an achiral bent-core nematic liquid crystal in a planar aligned device

(2009) P. S. Salter et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Boundary slip from the immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann models

(2009) Guigao Le et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Chiral Isotropic Liquids from Achiral Molecules

(2009) L. E. Hough et al.   SCIENCE

Helical Nanofilament Phases

(2009) L. E. Hough et al.   SCIENCE

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking in halogen-bonded, bent-core liquid crystals: observation of a chemically driven Iso–N–N* phase sequence

(2008) Carsten Präsang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS