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Polar Bent-Shape Liquid Crystals - From Molecular Bend To Layer Splay And Chirality, Antal Jakli, A. Eremin
Polar Bent-Shape Liquid Crystals - From Molecular Bend To Layer Splay And Chirality, Antal Jakli, A. Eremin
Antal Jakli
Considerable progress has been achieved in understanding the fascinating structure and physical properties of the ferroelectric liquid crystalline phases formed by bent-core liquid crystals (BLC). In this review, we discuss a manifold of polar structures and phases found in BLCs such as orthogonal and tilted ferro-/antiferroelectric phases, smectic phases, switchable columnar phases, modulated structures and phases stabilised by a periodic lattice of defects such as dark conglomerate and nanofilament phases. We review the theoretical aspects of ferroelectricity in BLCs including existing microscopic theories and computer simulations, polarity and chirality phenomena. The last part of the paper is devoted to the …
Hybrid Rod-Like And Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Dimers Exhibiting Biaxial Smectic A And Nematic Phases, Yan Wang, Hyung Yoon, Hari Bisoyi, Satyendra Kumar, Quan Li
Hybrid Rod-Like And Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Dimers Exhibiting Biaxial Smectic A And Nematic Phases, Yan Wang, Hyung Yoon, Hari Bisoyi, Satyendra Kumar, Quan Li
Satyendra Kumar
Liquid crystal hybrid dimers involving bent-core units and rod-like units were designed, synthesized and investigated by a combination of polarizing optical microscopy (POM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction studies. All the four unsymmetrical dimers 1–4 exhibited stable nematic phases over a wide temperature range. Moreover, dimer 1exhibited the biaxial smectic A (SmA) phase and dimer 2 exhibited a highly ordered mesophase below the nematic (N) phase. Two rod-like and bent-core nematogenic units were covalently linked in dimers 3 and 4 to furnish exclusively the nematic phase. The observation of the biaxial SmA phase underlying the nematic phase in …