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Twist Grain Boundary phases in proper ferroelectric liquid crystals realm
Damian Pociecha, Jadwiga Szydlowska, Nataša Vaupotič +7
The twist-grain-boundary (TGB) phases, characterized by a periodic, helical arrangement of blocks made of polar smectic phases, SmAF and SmCF, have been discovered. They have been…
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,…
Ferroelectric nematic -- isotropic critical end point
Jadwiga Szydlowska, Pawel Majewski, Mojca Čepič +8
A critical end point above which an isotropic phase continuously evolves into a polar (ferroelectric) nematic phase with an increasing electric field is found in a ferroelectric ne…
Intrinsically chiral ferronematic liquid crystals
D. Pociecha, R. Walker, E. Cruickshank +8
Strongly dipolar mesogenic compounds with a chiral center located in a lateral alkyl chain were synthesized, and shown to form the ferroelectric nematic phase. The presence of mole…
Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics
Olena S. Iadlovska, Greta Babakhanova, Georg H. Mehl +7
Elastic moduli of liquid crystals, known as Frank constants, are of quintessential importance for understanding fundamental properties of these materials and for the design of thei…
Multi-level Chirality in Liquid Crystals Formed by Achiral Molecules
Mirosław Salamończyk, Nataša Vaupotič, Damian Pociecha +6
In many biological materials with a hierarchical structure there is an intriguing and unique mechanism responsible for the 'propagation' of order from the molecular to the nano- or…