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20192026
most citedChirality-induced effective magnetic field in a phthalocyanine molecule

15 citations · 17 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Shear-mode Direct Piezoelectric Response of Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals

Péter Salamon, Marcell Tibor Máthé, Hiroya Nishikawa +2

Piezoelectricity (linear coupling between mechanical deformation and electric signal) was originally observed only in solid crystals. Recently, it was discovered that liquid ferroe…

cond-mat.soft2026

Direct measurement of osmotic pressure and interparticle interactions in colloidal dispersions

Keita Saito, Fumito Araoka

Colloidal dispersions are widely found in systems ranging from natural environments to industrial materials. Their macroscopic properties such as viscosity and light scattering dep…

cond-mat.soft2025

Electrically Tunable Heliconical Smectic Superstructure in Polar Fluids

Hiroya Nishikawa, Dennis Kwaria, Atsuko Nihonyanagi +3

The ferroelectric nematic (NF) phase and related polar liquid-crystalline phases form a new class of strongly polarized yet fluid soft matter. Well-recognized heliconical ferroelec…

physics.optics2025

Three-Dimensional Hieratical Twists in Polar Fluids: Chirality Regulation by Ultra-Low Electric Field

Hiroya Nishikawa, Dennis Kwaria, Atsuko Nihonyanagi +1

Recently discovered helical polar fluid adopts a spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) driven by polarization escape and conformational chirality. Ferroelectric nematic and sm…

cond-mat.soft2025

Spontaneous Twist of Ferroelectric Smectic Blocks in Polar Fluids

Hiroya Nishikawa, Yasushi Okumura, Dennis Kwaria +2

In soft matter, the polar orientational order of molecules can facilitate the coexistence of structural chirality and ferroelectricity. The ferroelectric nematic (NF) state, exhibi…

cond-mat.soft20251 cited

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…