3 papers
cond-mat.soft2024
An active hydroelastic liquid crystal phase of a fluttering ferroelectric nematic
Xi Chen, Cory Pecinovsky, Eva Korblova +5
Polarization flutter, produced by an applied AC electric field drives an equilibrium ferroelectric nematic () liquid crystal (LC) through a transition into a dissipat…
cond-mat.soft2024
Thermotropic reentrant isotropy and antiferroelectricity in the ferroelectric nematic realm: Comparing RM734 and DIO
Bingchen Zhong, Min Shuai, Xi Chen +6
The current intense study of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals was initiated by the observation of the same ferroelectric nematic phase in two independently discovered organic…
cond-mat.soft2024
Calorimetric evidence for the existence of an intermediate phase between the ferroelectric nematic phase and the nematic phase in the liquid crystal RM734
Jan Thoen, George Cordoyiannis, Eva Korblova +5
The idea that rod-like molecules possessing an electric dipole moment could exhibit a ferroelectric nematic phase was suggested more than a century ago. However, only recently such…