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 …

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the
latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens …

Over the last ten years, the nematic phases of liquid crystals formed from bent‐core
structures have provoked considerable research because of their remarkable properties …

Molecular shape is an important factor in determining the material properties of thermotropic
liquid crystals (LCs). We synthesized and investigated several LC compounds formed by …

We report temperature dependent measurements of birefringence (Δn), splay (K11), bend
(K33) elastic constants and rotational viscosity (γ1) of mixtures of rod-like and bent-core …

We report on fast electro-optic switching (response time 0.1 ms) of a blue-phase-polymer
templated nematic with a broad-temperature range of thermodynamic stability and …

A new approach is reported for the design of a room-temperature discotic nematic (ND)
liquid crystal (LC) dimer consisting of a triphenylene and a pentaalkynylbenzene unit linked …

“de Vries” liquid crystals, defined by a maximum layer shrinkage of≤ 1% from the smectic A
to C phase transition, are an integral component of ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) displays …

We report high-sensitivity and high-temperature resolution experimental data for the
temperature dependence of the optical birefringence of a nonpolar monolayer smectogen 4 …

We report the measurement of birefringence, dielectric constant, splay, bend elastic
constants and rotational viscosity in the nematic phase (N) of a hockey stick-shaped …