A fibre forming smectic twist–bent liquid crystalline phase?

RSC Advances Pub Date: 2015-01-19 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA14669G

Abstract

We demonstrate the nanostructure and filament formation of a novel liquid crystal phase of a dimeric mesogen below the twist–bend nematic phase. The new fibre-forming phase is distinguished by a short-correlated smectic order combined with an additional nanoscale periodicity that is not associated with density modulation.

Graphical abstract: A fibre forming smectic twist–bent liquid crystalline phase
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