Liquid crystal phases with unusual structures and physical properties formed by acute-angle bent core molecules

@inproceedings{Li2020LiquidCP,
  title={Liquid crystal phases with unusual structures and physical properties formed by acute-angle bent core molecules},
  author={Bing-Xiang Li and Yu. A. Nastishin and Hao Wang and Min Gao and Sathyanarayana Paladugu and Ruipeng Li and Masafumi Fukuto and Quan Li and Sergij V. Shiyanovskii and Oleg D. Lavrentovich},
  year={2020}
}
The work explores liquid crystalline phases formed by acute-angle bent-core molecules. The material shows a very small splay modulus in the uniaxial nematic phase and a tetragonal positionally ordered columnar phase consisting of columns with alternating polar and non-polar packing of molecular pairs. 
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