Achiral multi-chain benzil derivatives provide a missing link between mirror symmetry breaking phenomena in fluid systems of polycatenar and bent-core liquid crystals.
An achiral double swallow tailed rod-like molecule forms a chirality synchronized isotropic liquid conglomerate between a chiral cubic and an achiral nematic phase.
Achiral hydrogen bonded rod-like complexes with four nonequally distributed terminal alkyl chains form a chirality synchronized isotropic liquid conglomerate as well as a conglomerate type chiral cubic phase.
Achiral multi-chain (polycatenar) compounds based on the 2,7-diphenyl substituted [1]benzothieno[3,2-b]benzothiophene (BTBT) unit and a 2,6-dibromo-3,4,5-trialkoxybenzoate end group lead to materials forming bicontinuous cubic liquid crystaline phases with helical network structures...