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Systematic Fluorination is a Powerful Design Strategy Towards Fluid Molecular Ferroelectrics
Calum J. Gibb, Jordan Hobbs, Richard J. Mandle
Ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals combine liquid-like fluidity and orientational order of conventional nematics with macroscopic electric polarization comparable in magnit…
A fast transferable method for predicting the glass transition temperature of polymers from chemical structure
Sebastian Brierley-Croft, Peter D. Olmsted, Peter J. Hine +4
We present a new method that successfully predicts the glass transition temperature of polymers based on their monomer structure. The model combines ideas from…
Antiferroelectric order in nematic liquids: Flexoelectricity vs electrostatics
Peter Medle Rupnik, Ema Hanžel, Matija Lovšin +5
The recent discovery of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phases marks a major breakthrough in soft matter research. An intermediate phase, often observed between the nonpol…
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…
Emergent Anti-Ferroelectric Ordering and the Coupling of Liquid Crystalline and Polar Order
Jordan Hobbs, Calum J. Gibb, Richard. J. Mandle
Polar liquid crystals possess three dimensional orientational order coupled with unidirectional electric polarity, yielding fluid ferroelectrics. Such polar phases are generated by…
Rapid Conformational Analysis of Semi-Flexible Liquid Crystals
Jordan L. Hobbs, Calum J. Gibb, Ewan Cruickshank +2
We present an approach for rapid conformational analysis of semi-flexible liquid crystals. We use a simple graphical user interface (GUI) tool that leverages rules-based methods fo…
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Polar Fluids
Calum Gibb, Jordan Hobbs, Diana Nikolova +3
Spontaneous symmetry breaking and emergent polar order are each of fundamental importance to a range of scientific disciplines, as well as generating rich phase behaviour in liquid…