2 papers
cond-mat.soft2024
Calorimetric evidence for the existence of an intermediate phase between the ferroelectric nematic phase and the nematic phase in the liquid crystal RM734
Jan Thoen, George Cordoyiannis, Eva Korblova +5
The idea that rod-like molecules possessing an electric dipole moment could exhibit a ferroelectric nematic phase was suggested more than a century ago. However, only recently such…
cond-mat.soft2014
Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase?
Ewa Gorecka, Miroslaw Salamonczyk, Anna Zep +4
Dimeric compounds forming twist-bend nematic, Ntb, phase show unusual optical texture related to the formation of arrays of focal conic defects. Some of the focal conics show submi…