Interest in the smectic liquid‐crystalline state of matter received a substantial boost with the
discovery by Meyer in the mid‐1970s that a chiral smectic C (SmC*) phase exhibits a …

The oblique helicoidal structure is formed in right-angle cholesterics under the applied
electric field. The electric field changes the pitch and cone angle but preserves the single …

To contribute to better understanding of the structure–property relationship for chiral liquid
crystalline materials a series of new liquid crystalline (LC) materials possessing several (S) …

The smectic layer spacing of a nonfluorinated ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) compound
with almost no shrinkage and only minor tendency to form zigzag defects was characterized …

Two photosensitive chiral liquid crystalline azobenzene‐containing polymethacrylates
having different length of flexible spacer connecting chromophores with backbone were …

Self-assembling behaviour of a few lactic acid derivatives with several ester linkage groups
in the molecular core has been studied. The molecular structure–physical property …

The development of NMR techniques applied in the last 10 years to partially oriented
systems, and in particular to liquid crystals (LCs), is the object of this brief perspective. The …

For the first time new type of liquid single crystal elastomers forming the chiral smectic
A*(SmA*) phase has been prepared using chiral lactic acid derivative as a co-monomer. The …

A new series of materials with a chiral fragment derived from lactic acid and a methoxy
group as lateral substituent in different positions of the molecular core was synthesised and …

Two series of binary mixtures composed of bent shaped and rod like molecules are
reported. The first star shaped bent core molecules were synthesized and used as a …