Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Nematic Liquid Crystals Bent-core nematic liquid crystals exhibit giant flexoelectricity and polar electro-optic responses. Confined in nanopores, they stabilize chiral nanostructures, enhance polar order, and enable defect-driven switching. Studying CB7CB in anodic aluminium oxide and silica nanochannels reveals confinement's impact on phase behaviour and suppressing order under strong spatial constraints, paralleling electric field effects. This enables novel functionalities in responsive and anisotropic materials. More in article number 2506651, Patrick Huber, Andriy V. Kityk, and co-workers.
Source: Small
DOI: 10.1002/smll.71531
Institutions: Lviv Polytechnic National University, Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Université d'Angers, Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg University of Technology, Częstochowa University of Technology
Language: English
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
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