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 …

Microcontinuum Field Theories constitutes an extension of classical field theories-of elastic
solids, viscous fluids, electromagnetism, and the like-to microscopic length and time scales …

Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental
problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity …

Flexoelectricity is a coupling between orientational deformation and electric polarization. We
present a direct method for measuring the flexoelectric coefficients of nematic liquid crystals …

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 …

Flexoelectricity may have an important impact on the switching properties of nematic and
cholesteric liquid crystals due to the linear coupling between the flexoelectric polarization of …

A new measurement method for the flexoelectric coefficients e 11 and e 33 (corresponding
to the splay and bend strain, respectively) of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) is proposed. The …

Linear and quadratic electromechanical effects of liquid crystals are reviewed. Among the
linear effects the piezoelectric and flexoelectric effects and their analogues in low molecular …

The recent discovery of nematic liquid crystals with polar order (ferroelectric) has created
immense interest. Despite intensive research, several physical properties of this liquid …

We present theoretical results on the threshold and near-threshold behaviour of
electrohydrodynamic convection of planarly aligned nematics under DC and AC driving. We …