3 papers
cond-mat.soft2024
Freely Suspended Nematic and Smectic Films and Free-Standing Smectic Filaments in the Ferroelectric Nematic Realm
Keith G. Hedlund, Vikina Martinez, Xi Chen +4
We show that stable, freely suspended liquid crystal films can be made from the ferroelectric nematic () phase and from the recently discovered polar, lamellar $\math…
cond-mat.soft2023
Thermotropic reentrant isotropy and antiferroelectricity in the ferroelectric nematic realm: Comparing RM734 and DIO
Bingchen Zhong, Min Shuai, Xi Chen +6
The current intense study of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals was initiated by the observation of the same ferroelectric nematic phase in two independently discovered organic…
cond-mat.soft2023
Thermotropic reentrant isotropy and antiferroelectricity in the ferroelectric nematic material RM734
Xi Chen, Min Shuai, Bingchen Zhong +6
We report a transition from the ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal () phase to a lower-temperature, antiferroelectric fluid phase having reentrant isotropic symmetry ()…