Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Thermotropic liquid crystals can be formed by various molecular shapes, some discovered
over 125 years ago. The simplest and most-studied liquid crystals are made of rod-shaped …

A state of matter in which molecules show a long-range orientational order and no positional
order is called a nematic liquid crystal. The best known and most widely used (for example …

Freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy study of the nanoscale structure of the so-
called “twist–bend” nematic phase of the cyanobiphenyl (CB) dimer molecule CB (CH2) 7CB …

The synthesis and characterisation of the nonsymmetric liquid crystal dimer, 1-(4-
cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) hexane (CB6OCB) is reported. An …

Mesogenic soft materials, having single or multiple mesogen moieties per molecule,
commonly exhibit typical self‐organization characteristics, which promotes the formation of …

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 …

The chiral, heliconical (twist-bend) nematic ground state is reported in an achiral, rigid, bent-
core mesogen (UD68). Similar to the nematic twist-bend (N TB) phase observed in bent …

In this article, we probe the formation of liquid crystal and soft crystal phases as a
consequence of minimising the free volume of the system either through design engineering …

Complex materials often exhibit a hierarchical structure with an intriguing mechanism
responsible for the 'propagation'of order from the molecular to the nano-or micro-scale level …