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Heliconical smectic phases with transversal polar order

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Helicity and polar order in bent-core liquid crystals. Fundamental insights into the synergistic roles of electrostatic energy, transient molecular helicity, and phase structure in controlling heliconical twist of achiral bent-core molecules.

Source: Journal of Materials Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1039/d5tc01109d

Authors: Mohamed Alaasar, Marko Prehm, Maria-Gabriela Tamba, Nerea Sebastian, Alexey Eremin, Yuri P. Panarin, Jagdish K. Vij, Carsten Tschierske

Institutions: Cairo University, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Trinity College Dublin

Language: English

Topic: Liquid Crystal Research Advancements

Subfield: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Awards: GRK 2670: Amphiphilie Plus: Selbstorganisation weicher Materie durch multiple nichtkovalente Wechselwirkungen, G2343307116, SpiegelSymmetriebruch in selbstorganisierten nanostrukturierten Funktionsmaterialien, G6917555142

OpenAlex ID: W4410375269

FWCI: 0.489

Cites: 112

Cited by: 3

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