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Antiferroelectric Smectic Ordering as a Prelude to the Ferroelectric Nematic:Introducing the Smectic Phase
Xi Chen, Vikina Martinez, Eva Korblova +9
We have structurally characterized the liquid crystal phase that appears as an intermediate state when a dielectric nematic, having polar disorder of its molecular dipoles, transit…
The interplay between spatial and heliconical bond order in twist-bend nematic materials
Rony Saha, Chenrun Feng, Chris Welch +6
The nanostructure of two novel sulfur containing dimer materials has been investigated experimentally by hard and by resonant tender X-ray scattering techniques. On cooling the dim…
Identification of New Assembly Mode in the Heliconical Nematic Phase via Tender Resonant X-ray Scattering
Yu Cao, Jun Feng, Asritha Nallapaneni +5
Helical structures are exciting and are utilized in numerous applications ranging from biotechnology to displays to medicine. Accurate description and understanding of resonance ef…
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…
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…
Heliconical smectic phases formed by achiral molecules
Jordan P. Abberley, Ross Killah, Rebecca Walker +6
A series of asymmetric dimers with an odd number of atoms in the spacer were found to form different types of twisted structures despite being achiral. The formation of a variety o…