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 …

A state of matter in which molecules show a long-range orientational order and no positional
order is called a nematic liquid crystal. The best known and most widely used (for example …

Liquid crystals are valuable materials for applications in beam steering devices. In this
paper, an overview of the use of liquid crystals in the field of adaptive optics specifically for …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201500340 electric/magnetic field, heat, and light,[9] thus enabling
applications such as temperature indicators,[3] sensors of minute quantities of gases,[10, 11] …

Cholesteric heliconical (CH) superstructures are capable of manipulating the photonic band
gap over an ultra-wide spectral range, making them desirable for field-stimulated soft …

It has been found that bent-shaped achiral molecules can form a liquid crystal phase, called
the Twist-Bend Nematic (NTB), which is locally polar and spontaneously twisted having a …

Electrically induced reorientation of liquid crystals (LCs) is a fundamental phenomenon
widely used in modern technologies. We observe experimentally an electrooptic effect in a …

Herein we report studies on a bimesogen that exhibits a chiral twist bend nematic phase
when doped with small weight percentages of a chiral material and a partial phase diagram …

The nematic twist–bend phase (NTB) was, until recently, only observed for polar mesogenic
dimers, trimers or bent‐core compounds. In this article, we report a comprehensive study on …

We present studies of chiral nematic liquid crystals composed of flexible dimer molecules
subject to large dc magnetic fields between 0 and 31 T. We observe that these fields lead to …