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cond-mat.soft2013
Surface Alignment, Anchoring Transitions, Optical Properties, and Topological Defects in the Thermotropic Nematic Phase of an Organo-Siloxane Tetrapodes
Young-Ki Kim, Bohdan Senyuk, Sung-Tae Shin +3
We perform optical, surface anchoring, and textural studies of an organo-siloxane tetrapode material in the broad temperature range of the nematic phase. The optical, structural, a…
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Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation
Volodymyr Borshch, Young-Ki Kim, Jie Xiang +8
A state of matter in which molecules show a long-range orientational order and no positional order is called a nematic liquid crystal. The best known and most widely used (for exam…