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Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role of spacers and terminal alkyl chains. (2020)
Journal Article
FORSYTH, E., PATERSON, D.A., CRUICKSHANK, E., STRACHAN, G.J., GORECKA, E., WALKER, R., STOREY, J.M.D. and IMRIE, C.T. 2020. Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role of spacers and terminal alkyl chains. Journal of molecular liquids [online], 320(part A), article 114391. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114391

The synthesis and characterisation of four series of liquid crystal dimers based on benzylideneaniline mesogenic units, and in which the lengths of terminal alkyloxy chains are varied are reported. The series differ in terms of their flexible spacers... Read More about Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role of spacers and terminal alkyl chains..

Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics. (2020)
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IADLOVSKA, O.S., BABAKHANOVA, G., MEHL, G.H., WELCH, C., CRUICKSHANK, E., STRACHAN, G.J., STOREY, J.M.D., IMRIE, C.T., SHIYANOVSKII, S.V. and LAVRENTOVICH, O.D. 2020. Temperature dependence of blend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics. Physical review research [online], 2 (1), article 013248. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013248

Elastic moduli of liquid crystals, known as Frank constants, are of quintessential importance for understanding fundamental properties of these materials and for the design of their applications. Although there are many methods to measure the Frank c... Read More about Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics..

Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. (2019)
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CRUICKSHANK, E., SALAMOŃCZYK, M., POCIECHA, D., STRACHAN, G.J., STOREY, J.M.D., WANG, C., FENG, J., ZHU, C., GORECKA, E. and IMRIE, C.T. 2019. Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. Liquid crystals [online], 46(10), pages 1595-1609. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2019.1641638

The synthesis and characterisation of two series of cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers containing sulfur links between the spacer and mesogenic units, the 4ʹ-[1,ω-alkanediylbis(thio)]bis-[1,1ʹ-biphenyl]-4-carbonitriles (CBSnSCB), and 4ʹ-({ω-[(... Read More about Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase..