'Setting things straight' by twisting and bending?

Abstract

We explain the origins of the controversy about the classification of the $N_X$ phase observed in cyanobiphenyl dimers and why it is a polar twisted phase, an entirely new kind of nematic.

27 pages

References in corpus (3)

• A Twist-Bend Chiral Helix of 8nm Pitch in a Nematic Liquid Crystal of Achiral Molecular Dimers
• A Molecular Theory of the Nematic-Nematic Phase Transitions in Mesogenic Dimers
• Polar molecular ordering in the Nx phase of bimesogens and enantiotopic discrimination in the NMR spectra of rigid prochiral solutes