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 …

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 …

Here we report the chemical induction of the twist-bend nematic phase in a nematic mixture
of ether-linked liquid crystal dimers by the addition of a dimer with methylene links; all …

Over the last ten years, the nematic phases of liquid crystals formed from bent‐core
structures have provoked considerable research because of their remarkable properties …

Odd–even effects, oscillations in properties of materials comprised of an odd or even
number of connected repeating units, are well-known phenomena in materials science. In …

The splay and bend elastic constants of the bent-core oxadiazole material [C5-Ph-ODBP-Ph-
OC12] have been investigated as a function of temperature across the nematic phase. The …

The appearance of polar order in nematic fluids is of broad interest rejuvenating affluent
concepts of physics and chemistry. In bent-core nematics (BCNs), ferroelectric switching is a …

Flexoelectric properties–the effective flexoelectric coefficient and flexoelectric polarization–
are investigated for a bimesogenic liquid crystal CBC11CB with a twist bend nematic phase …

The physical properties of the nematic phases formed by four bent-core oxadiazole based
materials are reported. In particular, the splay (K11), twist (K22) and bend (K33) elastic …

Analogous to rod-shaped and disc-shaped molecules, bent-core molecules also exhibit
nematic phases, in addition to other higher order mesophases. Presently, about 600 bent …