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20202026
most citedStructure of the twist-bend nematic phase with respect to the orientational molecular order of the thioether-linked dimers

9 citations · 11 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.soft2026★ 9 cited

Structure of the twist-bend nematic phase with respect to the orientational molecular order of the thioether-linked dimers

Antoni Kocot, Barbara Loska, Yuki Arakawa +1

An analysis of the IR absorbance for the segmented functional groups of liquid crystal dimers: mesogen and linker, enabled the orientation order to be determined and information ab…

cond-mat.soft2022

Study of the experimental and simulated vibrational spectra together with conformational analysis for thioether cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers

Barbara Loska, Antoni Kocot, Yuki Arakawa +2

Infrared spectroscopy (IR) and quantum chemistry calculations that are based on the density functional theory (DFT) have been used to study the structure, molecular interactions of…

cond-mat.soft2022

Increased intermolecular interactions and cluster formation at the onset of the twist-bend nematic phase in thioether cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers

Katarzyna Merkel, Barbara Loska, Yuki Arakawa +3

Infrared spectroscopy (IR) and quantum chemistry calculations, based on density functional theory (DFT) were used to study the structure and the molecular interactions in the nemat…

physics.chem-ph2020

The role of intermolecular interactions in stabilizing the structure of the nematic twist-bend phase

Katarzyna Merkel, Barbara Loska, Chris Welch +2

The relationship between the molecular structure and the formation of the NTB phase is still at an early stage of development. This is mainly related to molecular geometry, while t…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 2 cited

Molecular biaxiality determines the helical structure -- Infrared measurements of the molecular order in the NTB phase of difluoro terphenyl dimers

Katarzyna Merkel, Barbara Loska, Chris Welch +2

IR polarized spectroscopy was employed, to obtain the three components of IR absorbance for a series DTC5Cn (n=5,7,9,11) of bent-shaped dimers containing double fluorinated terphen…