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Designing Liquid‐Crystalline Oligomers to Exhibit Twist‐Bend Modulated Nematic Phases
Author(s) -
Mandle Richard J.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the chemical record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1528-0691
pISSN - 1527-8999
DOI - 10.1002/tcr.201800010
Subject(s) - mesophase , liquid crystal , materials science , chirality (physics) , substructure , twist , nanostructure , soft matter , nanoscopic scale , phase (matter) , antiferroelectricity , chemical physics , nanotechnology , state of matter , crystallography , condensed matter physics , organic chemistry , chemistry , optoelectronics , physics , geometry , colloid , chiral symmetry , mathematics , dielectric , structural engineering , engineering , quark , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , ferroelectricity
Arguably the most active area in liquid crystal research presently, the twist‐bend modulated nematic phase (TB) exhibits a nanoscale helical structure and therefore exhibits bulk chirality despite being formed of typically achiral materials. After a short introduction we address the structure‐property relationship that exists for this unique mesophase before introducing recent advances in strategies employed to prepare oligomeric materials that exhibit this state of matter. These methods afford fine control over the molecular substructure and potentially over the nanostructure of the exhibited mesophases.
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