Giant Electro-Viscous Effects in Polar Fluids with Paraelectric-Modulated Antiferroelectric-Ferroelectric Phase Sequence

Hiroya Nishikawa, Péter Salamon, Marcell Tibor Máthé +2

The recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid-crystal material DIO exhibits an antiferroelectric (AF) phase, characterized by a sinusoidally modulated structure between the…