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The Ever Elusive, Yet-to-Be-Discovered Twist-Bend Nematic Phase

Published:2023-11-29 Issue:12 Volume:13 Page:1648
ISSN:2073-4352
Container-title:Crystals
language:en
Short-container-title:Crystals

Author:

Samulski Edward T.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA

Abstract

The second, lower-temperature nematic phase observed in nonlinear dimer liquid crystals has properties originating from nanoscale, polar, intermolecular packing preferences. It fits the description of a new liquid crystal phase discovered by Vanakaras and Photinos, called the polar-twisted nematic. It is unrelated to Meyer’s twist-bend nematic, a meta-structure having a macroscale director topology consistent with Frank–Oseen elastic theory.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Inorganic Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science,General Chemical Engineering

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/12/1648/pdf

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