Room temperature heliconical twist-bend nematic liquid crystal
CrystEngComm2015Vol. 17(14), pp. 2778–2782
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Yuan Wang, Gautam Singh, Deña M. Agra-Kooijman, Min Gao, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Chenming Xue, Michael R. Fisch, Satyendra Kumar, Quan Li
Abstract
The nanostructured heliconical twist-bend nematic (Ntb) phase is a new condensed phase of matter with unique properties. Here we present the first example of an achiral hybrid bent-core liquid crystal trimer that at temperatures below the conventional N phase exhibits the Ntb phase from approximately 80 °C down through room temperature. The Ntb phase has a helical structure with a period of ~19 nm.
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