Chemical and physical aspects of recent bent-shaped liquid crystals exhibiting chiral and achiral mesophases

S Kaur, V Punjani, N Yadav, A Barthakur, A Baghla… - Liquid …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bent-core liquid crystals (BLCs) are a class of thermotropic LCs that exhibit chiral and polar
superstructures in achiral molecules. Progress in design and synthesis of novel bent-core …

Polar response and Fréedericksz transition in cybotactic nematic fluids of unsymmetrical bent-core molecules

S Kaur, G Mohiuddin, J Zhang, S Chakraborty… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
The appearance of polar order in nematic fluids is of broad interest rejuvenating affluent
concepts of physics and chemistry. In bent-core nematics (BCNs), ferroelectric switching is a …

Photoswitchable bent-core nematic liquid crystals with methylated azobenzene wing exhibiting optic-field-enhanced Freedericksz transition effect

N Begum, S Kaur, Y Xiang, H Yin… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We have investigated two new series of unsymmetrical four-ring bent-core molecules with
methylated azobenzene wings exhibiting nematic mesophase. The difference between the …

Extremely high Kerr constant and low operating voltage in a stable room-temperature blue phase III derived from three-ring-based bent-core molecules

RK Khan, G Mohiuddin, N Begum… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this study, we used a new series of highly polar three-ring-based bent-core liquid crystals
(BCLCs) to stabilize a wide temperature range of blue phase III (BPIII), including room …

Design, synthesis and characterization of achiral unsymmetrical four-ring based hockey-stick shaped liquid crystals: structure-property relationship

V Jain, S Kaur, G Mohiuddin, SK Pal - Liquid Crystals, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Hockey-stick-shaped liquid crystals are interesting due to their unusual physical properties.
Nematic phase observed in these materials have shown promising ferroelectric-like …

Structural understanding, photoswitchability, and supergelation of a new class of four ring-based bent-shaped liquid crystal

N Begum, S Kaur, G Mohiuddin, R Nandi… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a new type of azobenzene-based unsymmetrical bent-core molecules
exhibiting photoswitchability in the liquid crystalline state, solid state, and solution state and …

Influence of terminal halogen moieties on the phase structure of short-core achiral hockey-stick-shaped mesogens: design, synthesis and structure–property …

S Kaur, G Mohiuddin, P Satapathy, R Nandi… - … Systems Design & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
An extensive study of the effect of terminal halogens on the structure–property relationship in
three series of polar short-core hockey-stick-shaped or L-shaped mesogens has been …

Structural organization and molecular self-assembly of a new class of polar and non-polar four-ring based bent-core molecules

S Kaur, G Mohiuddin, V Punjani, RK Khan… - Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
We have studied two new series of polar and non-polar four-ring based achiral bent-core
molecules containing single bondCN and single bondOCH 3 moiety respectively at the tip of …

Observation of disordered mesomorphism in three-ring-based highly polar bent-core molecules: design, synthesis and characterisation

G Mohiuddin, N Begum, NVS Rao, S Kaur… - Liquid …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Research on low-temperature polar bent-core nematogens having lower molecular weight
has gathered appreciable momentum by virtue of their significance in potential applications …

Cybotactic nematic phase of achiral unsymmetrical bent-core liquid crystals–quelling of polar ordering and the influence of terminal substituent moiety

S Patranabish, G Mohiuddin, N Begum… - Journal of Molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nematic phase of bent-core liquid crystals (LCs) exhibiting cybotactic clusters (N Cyb) have
gained significant importance owing to its promising ability to demonstrate macroscopic …