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 …

Also recognized as carbohydrate liquid crystals, glycolipids are amphiphiles whose basic
unit comprises of a sugar group attached to an alkyl chain. Glycolipids are amphitropic …

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 …

Supramolecular interactions can create a stable spatial architecture that resists reorientation
in response to an external electromagnetic field. In contrast, liquid crystal molecules with …

A bent-core mesogen that forms a cybotactic nematic phase exhibits a giant magnetic field-
induced shift of its nematic-isotropic and smectic-C–nematic transition temperatures: Δ T …

Dielectric spectroscopy in frequencies that range from 10 Hz to 1 GHz has been used to
study the molecular orientational dynamics of the two types of dimers that form the twist …

We present structural studies of a dimeric compound composed of a central heptyl spacer
linking two mesogens consisting of terphenyl units at which two adjacent fluoro groups are …

We perform optical, surface anchoring, and textural studies of an organo-siloxane
“tetrapode” material in the broad temperature range of the nematic phase. The optical …

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 …

Here, we report the synthesis and investigations of hockey-stick liquid crystalline materials
derived from 4-cyanoresorcinol as the central core unit. The effect of distinct linking groups …