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Nanostructural polymorphism in the low-birefringence chiral phase of an achiral bent-shaped dimer
Khoa V. Le, Michael R. Tuchband, Hiroshi Iwayama +3
Polymorphism, the phenomenon that a species can exist in many discrete forms, is common in nature, such as hair colors in an animal species, flower colors in a tree species, and bl…
Distinct differences in the nanoscale behaviors of the twist-bend liquid crystal phase of a flexible linear trimer and homologous dimer
Michael R. Tuchband, Daniel A. Paterson, Mirosław Salamończyk +12
We synthesized the liquid crystal dimer and trimer members of a series of flexible linear oligomers and characterized their microscopic and nanoscopic properties using resonant sof…
Double-Helical Tiled Chain Structure of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal phase in CB7CB
Michael R. Tuchband, Min Shuai, Keri A. Graber +16
The twist-bend nematic liquid crystal phase is a three-dimensional fluid in which achiral bent molecules spontaneously form an orientationally ordered macroscopically chiral helico…
Resonant carbon K-edge soft x-ray scattering from lattice-free heliconical molecular ordering: soft dilative elasticity of the twist-bend liquid crystal phase
Chenhui Zhu, Michael R. Tuchband, Anthony Young +7
Resonant x-ray scattering shows that the bulk structure of the twist-bend liquid crystal phase, recently discovered in bent molecular dimers, has spatial periodicity without electr…
The twist-bend nematic phase of bent mesogenic dimer CB7CB and its mixtures
Michael R. Tuchband, Min Shuai, Keri A. Graber +12
Binary mixtures of the twist-bend nematic-forming liquid crystal CB7CB with the prototypical rod-like liquid crystal 5CB exhibit a twist-bend nematic phase with properties similar…
A Twist-Bend Chiral Helix of 8nm Pitch in a Nematic Liquid Crystal of Achiral Molecular Dimers
Dong Chen, Jan H. Porada, Justin B. Hooper +8
Freeze Fracture Transmission Electron Microscopy (FFTEM) study of the nanoscale structure of the so-called "twist-bend" nematic (NX) phase of the cyanobiphenyl (CB) dimer molecule…