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Liquid Crystals Volume 47, 2020 - Issue 13: Commemorative Issue dedicated to Zeev Luz; Guest Editor: Edward T Samulski
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The twist bend nematic: a case of mistaken identity

Edward T. Samulskia Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Alexandros G. Vanakarasb Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Patras, GreeceORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9370-6587
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Demetri J. Photinosb Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Pages 2092-2097 | Received 01 May 2019, Accepted 12 Jul 2020, Published online: 15 Sep 2020

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Yuki Arakawa, Kyohei Horita & Kazunobu Igawa. (2023) Phase behaviour of ester-linked cyanobiphenyl dimers and fluorinated analogues: the direct isotropic to twist-bend nematic phase transition. Liquid Crystals 50:13-14, pages 2216-2228.
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Ivan Dozov & Geoffrey R. Luckhurst. (2020) Setting things straight in ‘The twist-bend nematic: a case of mistaken identity’. Liquid Crystals 47:13, pages 2098-2115.
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Edward T. Samulski. (2023) The Ever Elusive, Yet-to-Be-Discovered Twist-Bend Nematic Phase. Crystals 13:12, pages 1648.
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Anant Kumar. (2022) Dependency of the twist-bend nematic phase formation on the molecular shape of liquid crystal dimers: A view through the lens of DFT. Journal of Molecular Liquids 354, pages 118858.
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Massimiliano Chiappini & Marjolein Dijkstra. (2021) A generalized density-modulated twist-splay-bend phase of banana-shaped particles. Nature Communications 12:1.
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Jiao Liu, Sasan Shadpour, Marianne E. Prévôt, Michael Chirgwin, Ahlam Nemati, Elda Hegmann, Robert P. Lemieux & Torsten Hegmann. (2021) Molecular Conformation of Bent-Core Molecules Affected by Chiral Side Chains Dictates Polymorphism and Chirality in Organic Nano- and Microfilaments. ACS Nano 15:4, pages 7249-7270.
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Yuki Arakawa, Kenta Komatsu, Takuma Shiba & Hideto Tsuji. (2021) Methylene- and thioether-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers CB n SCB exhibiting room temperature twist-bend nematic phases and glasses . Materials Advances 2:5, pages 1760-1773.
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Katarzyna Merkel, Barbara Loska, Chris Welch, Georg H. Mehl & Antoni Kocot. (2021) Molecular biaxiality determines the helical structure – infrared measurements of the molecular order in the nematic twist-bend phase of difluoro terphenyl dimer. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 23:7, pages 4151-4160.
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R. Saha, C. Feng, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl, J. Feng, C. Zhu, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt & A. Jákli. (2021) The interplay between spatial and heliconical orientational order in twist-bend nematic materials. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 23:7, pages 4055-4063.
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E. I. Kats. (2021) Stability of the uniform ferroelectric nematic phase. Physical Review E 103:1.
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Leah M. Heist, Edward T. Samulski, Chris Welch, Ziauddin Ahmed, Georg H. Mehl, Alexandros G. Vanakaras & Demetri J. Photinos. (2020) Probing molecular ordering in the nematic phases of para-linked bimesogen dimers through NMR studies of flexible prochiral solutes . Liquid Crystals 47:13, pages 2058-2073.
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