Issue 15, 2015
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A fibre forming smectic twist–bent liquid crystalline phase†

M. G. Tamba,ac   S. M. Salili,b   C. Zhang,b   A. Jákli,b   G. H. Mehl,*c   R. Stannariusa  and  A. Eremin*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Nonlinear Phenomena, Institute for Experimental Physics, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
E-mail: alexey.eremin@ovgu.de

b Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001, USA

c Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK

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.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA14669G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Nov 2014
Accepted
06 Jan 2015
First published
19 Jan 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 11207-11211

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A fibre forming smectic twist–bent liquid crystalline phase

M. G. Tamba, S. M. Salili, C. Zhang, A. Jákli, G. H. Mehl, R. Stannarius and A. Eremin, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 11207 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA14669G

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