Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking is an efficient way to obtain homogeneously chiral
agents, pharmaceutical ingredients and materials. It is also in the focus of the discussion …

This article gives an overview on recent developments concerning the twist-bend nematic
phase. The twist-bend nematic phase has been discussed as the missing link between the …

Resonant x-ray scattering shows that the bulk structure of the twist-bend liquid crystal phase,
recently discovered in bent molecular dimers, has spatial periodicity without electron density …

Both major galaxies in the Local Group host planar distributions of co-orbiting satellite
galaxies, the Vast Polar Structure (VPOS) of the Milky Way and the Great Plane of …

In the recent two decades liquid crystal science has contributed significantly to the
understanding of mirror symmetry breaking and spontaneous emergence of chirality in …

We have prepared and studied a family of cyanobiphenyl dimers with varying linking groups
with a view to exploring how molecular structure dictates the stability of the nematic and twist …

In this article we report on the characterization and properties of several unsymmetrical
phenyl-benzoate bimesogens that exhibit the soft-matter, twist-bend nematic (NTB) phase …

Herein we report studies on a bimesogen that exhibits a chiral twist bend nematic phase
when doped with small weight percentages of a chiral material and a partial phase diagram …

Liquid crystals (LCs) represent a challenging group of materials for direct transmission
electron microscopy (TEM) studies due to the complications in specimen preparation and …

The nematic twist–bend phase (NTB) was, until recently, only observed for polar mesogenic
dimers, trimers or bent‐core compounds. In this article, we report a comprehensive study on …