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

Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase?

(2015) Ewa Gorecka et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

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

Flexoelectricity in chiral nematic liquid crystals as a driving mechanism for the twist-bend and splay-bend modulated phases

(2014) Nataša Vaupotič et al.   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

Atomic force microscopy study of surface topography of films of cholesteric oligomer- and polymer-based mixtures with photovariable helix pitch

(2013) Alexey Bobrovsky 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

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

Multiple nematic phases observed in chiral mesogenic dimers

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

Color selectivity lent to a cholesteric liquid crystal by monitoring interface-induced deformations

(2011) Gonzague Agez et al.   Soft Matter

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