Extending the Maier–Saupe theory to cybotactic nematics

Biaxial nematic phases

(2010) Carsten Tschierske et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

meta-Cybotaxis and nematic biaxiality

(2010) Edward T. Samulski   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Nematic phases of bent-core mesogens

(2010) Christina Keith et al.   Soft Matter

Ferroelectric Response and Induced Biaxiality in the Nematic Phase of Bent-Core Mesogens

(2009) Oriano Francescangeli et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Symmetries and alignment of biaxial nematic liquid crystals

(2009) Panagiota K. Karahaliou et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Biaxial nematics: symmetries, order domains and field-induced phase transitions†

(2009) S. D. Peroukidis et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Structure studies of the nematic phase formed by bent-core molecules

(2009) N. Vaupotič et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Thermotropic biaxial nematic liquid crystals: Spontaneous or field stabilized?

(2008) Alexandros G. Vanakaras et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Long- and Short-Range Order in the Mesophases of Laterally Substituted Calamitic Mesogens and their Radial Octapodes

(2008) Panagiota K. Karahaliou et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Unusual properties of a bent-core liquid-crystalline fluid

(2008) Verena Görtz et al.   Soft Matter