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  • Title: Utilising Saturated Hydrocarbon Isosteres of para Benzene in the Design of Twist-Bend Nematic Liquid Crystals.
    Author: Al-Janabi A, Mandle RJ.
    Journal: Chemphyschem; 2020 Apr 20; 21(8):697-701. PubMed ID: 32078227.
    Abstract:
    The nematic twist-bend (NTB ) liquid crystal phase possesses a local helical structure with a pitch length of a few nanometres and is the first example of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a fluid system. All known examples of the NTB phase occur in materials whose constituent mesogenic units are aromatic hydrocarbons. It is not clear if this is due to synthetic convenience or a bona fide structural requirement for a material to exhibit this phase of matter. In this work we demonstrate that materials consisting largely of saturated hydrocarbons can also give rise to this mesophase.
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