2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
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…
cond-mat.soft2023
To be or not to be polar: the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric nematic phases
Ewan Cruickshank, Paulina Rybak, Magdalena Majewska +8
We report the properties of two new series of compounds that show the ferroelectric nematic phase in which the length of a terminal chain is varied. The longer the terminal chain,…