Thermotropic liquid crystals can be formed by various molecular shapes, some discovered
over 125 years ago. The simplest and most-studied liquid crystals are made of rod-shaped …

Bent-core (BC) materials that form nematic liquid crystals (BC nematics (BCNs)) are known
only since 2000, but since then they have been intensively studied. In this review we give a …

An overview over the current state of research in the field of biaxial nematic liquid crystalline
materials is given. After a short introduction, providing some general aspects and …

Bent-core mesogens derived from 4-cyanoresorcinol with terminal alkyl chains have been
synthesized and investigated by polarizing microscopy, XRD and electro-optical methods …

Abstract Four series of new 1, 2, 4‐oxadiazole derived bent‐core liquid crystals
incorporating one or two cyclohexane rings are synthesized and investigated by optical …

Using a combination of dynamic light scattering and Freedericksz transitions induced in
applied magnetic and electric fields, we have determined the absolute magnitudes of the …

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are prepared and characterized via X-ray diffraction (XRD),
UV-Visible spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy …

The recent discovery of a ferroelectric response to a switching electric field in nematic
phases exhibited by bent-core polar molecules, particularly 1, 2, 4-oxdiazole derivatives …

Small angle X-ray diffraction from the uniaxial nematic phase of certain bent-core liquid
crystals is shown to be consistent with the presence of molecular clusters possessing short …

Dielectric spectroscopy measurements have been performed on a bent-core nematic liquid
crystal and on its binary mixtures with a calamitic nematic. We have detected more …