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Statistical mechanics of bend flexoelectricity and the twist-bend phase in bent-core liquid crystals
Shaikh M. Shamid, Subas Dhakal, Jonathan V. Selinger
We develop a Landau theory for bend flexoelectricity in liquid crystals of bent-core molecules. In the nematic phase of the model, the bend flexoelectric coefficient increases as w…
cond-mat.soft2013★ 3 cited
Landau theory-based estimates for viscosity coefficients of uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals
Shaikh M. Shamid, David W. Allender
Using Landau theory, it is shown that eight phenomenological parameters are needed to describe and distinguish the twelve viscosity coefficients of a biaxial nematic phase, or the…