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Large electrocaloric strength in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals with a tuneable operational temperature range
Diana I. Nikolova, Rachel Tuffin, Mengfan Guo +5
The electrocaloric (EC) effect offers a promising energy-efficient and clean cooling technology. We present the first direct measurements of EC temperature change in a new family o…
Ferroelectric Fluids for Nonlinear Photonics: Evaluation of Temperature Dependence of Second-Order Susceptibilities
Matija Lovšin, Luka Cmok, Calum J. Gibb +5
Ferroelectric nematic fluids are promising materials for tunable nonlinear photonics, with applications ranging from second harmonic generation to sources of entangled photons. How…
Polarity from the Bottom Up: A Computational Framework for Predicting Spontaneous Polar Order
Jordan Hobbs, Calum J. Gibb, Richard J. Mandle
So-called polar liquid crystals possess spontaneous long-range mutual orientation of their electric dipole moments, conferring bulk polarity to fluid phases of matter. The combinat…
Static and hydrodynamic periodic structures induced by AC electric fields in the antiferroelectric SmZA phase
K. S. Krishnamurthy, S. Krishna Prasad, D. S. Shankar Rao +4
We report the effect of AC electric fields in the range of 0.1-300 kHz on planar antiferroelectric SmZA layers of DIO. Significant results are (a) primary bifurcation into a quasis…
Ultra-stretchable and Self-Healable Vitrimers with Tuneable Damping and Mechanical Response
Jiaxin Zhao, Nicholas J. Warren, Richard Mandle +4
Vitrimers are a relatively new class of polymer materials with unique properties offered by cross-links that can undergo associative exchange dynamics. We here present a new class…
Ferri- and Ferro-Electric Switching in Spontaneously Chiral Polar Liquid Crystals
Jordan Hobbs, Calum J. Gibb, Richard J. Mandle
The recent discovery of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking has demonstrated the possibility of discovering the exotic textures of ferromagnetic systems in liquid crystalline flui…