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Competing ferroelectric and smectic order: modulated structures through molecular design
Grant J. Strachan, Ewa Górecka, Jadwiga Szydłowska +1
We demonstrate that the balance between polar and positional order can be systematically tuned through molecular engineering, providing direct control over the emergence of polar a…
Interplay of polar order and positional order in liquid crystals -- observation of re-entrant ferroelectric nematic phase
Grant Strachan, Shona Ramsay, Marijus Juodka +6
We show that development of polar order may spontaneously destroy the lamellar structure of a liquid crystal. This results in an unusual sequence of phases with the ferroelectric n…
Twist Grain Boundary phases in proper ferroelectric liquid crystals realm
Damian Pociecha, Jadwiga Szydlowska, Nataša Vaupotič +7
The twist-grain-boundary (TGB) phases, characterized by a periodic, helical arrangement of blocks made of polar smectic phases, SmAF and SmCF, have been discovered. They have been…
The balance between paraelectricity and ferroelectricity in non-chiral smectic homologs
Dorota Węgłowska, Michał Czerwiński, Robert Dzienisiewicz +4
Non-chiral liquid crystals (LCs) exhibiting ferroelectricity, distinguished by their dynamic responsiveness to external stimuli and high spontaneous polarization, provide renewed i…
Polar order in a fluid like ferroelectric with a tilted lamellar structure -- observation of a polar smectic C (SmC) phase
Jordan Hobbs, Calum J. Gibb, Damian Pociecha +3
The discovery of fluid states of matter with spontaneous bulk polar order is appreciated as a major discovery in the fields of soft matter and liquid crystals. Typically, this mani…
Nematic and smectic phases with proper ferroelectric order
Grant J. Strachan, Ewa Górecka, Jadwiga Szydłowska +2
A material showing a sequence of three ferroelectric liquid crystalline phases below the paraelectric nematic phase has been synthesized and studied. The polar order of molecules a…
Spontaneous polar and chiral symmetry breaking in ordered fluids -- heliconical ferroelectric nematic phases
Jakub Karcz, Jakub Herman, Natan Rychłowicz +5
It is known that the chiral interaction described by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DMI) term lead to the plethora of topological structures of magnetic spins, such as helical or skyrmion…
Ferroelectric nematic -- isotropic critical end point
Jadwiga Szydlowska, Pawel Majewski, Mojca Čepič +8
A critical end point above which an isotropic phase continuously evolves into a polar (ferroelectric) nematic phase with an increasing electric field is found in a ferroelectric ne…
Intrinsically chiral ferronematic liquid crystals
D. Pociecha, R. Walker, E. Cruickshank +8
Strongly dipolar mesogenic compounds with a chiral center located in a lateral alkyl chain were synthesized, and shown to form the ferroelectric nematic phase. The presence of mole…
Complex chiral columns made of achiral quinoxaline derivatives with semi-flexible cores
Paulina Rybak, Adam Krowczynski, Jadwiga Szydlowska +2
Mesogenic materials, quinoxaline derivatives with semi-flexible cores, are reported to form new type of 3D columnar structure with large crystallographic unit cell and Fddd symmetr…