Mirror Symmetry Breaking by Chirality Synchronisation in Liquids and Liquid Crystals of Achiral Molecules

ChemPhysChem ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
Carsten Tschierske ◽  
Goran Ungar
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mirror Symmetry

scholarly journals Mirror symmetry breaking in fluorinated bent-core mesogens

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (86) ◽  
pp. 82890-82899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Alaasar ◽  
Marko Prehm ◽  
Carsten Tschierske
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mirror Symmetry

New fluorinated bent-core liquid crystals exhibiting helical nano-crystallite phases composed of chiral domains with opposite handedness and polar smcetic phases.

scholarly journals Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in benzil-based soft crystalline, cubic liquid crystalline and isotropic liquid phases

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 5902-5908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tino Reppe ◽  
Silvio Poppe ◽  
Xiaoqian Cai ◽  
Yu Cao ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Isotropic Liquid ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Liquid Phases ◽  
Fluid Systems ◽  
Symmetry Breaking Phenomena

Achiral multi-chain benzil derivatives provide a missing link between mirror symmetry breaking phenomena in fluid systems of polycatenar and bent-core liquid crystals.

scholarly journals Mirror symmetry breaking in liquids and liquid crystals

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (13-15) ◽  
pp. 2221-2252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Tschierske
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mirror Symmetry

2,6-Dibromogallates as a new building block for controlling π-stacking, network formation and mirror symmetry breaking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ohjin Kwon ◽  
Xiaoqian Cai ◽  
Azhar Saeed ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Silvio Poppe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Network Formation ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Π Stacking ◽  
Bicontinuous Cubic ◽  
Substituted 1 ◽  
End Group

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...

Textures in hexatic films of nonchiral liquid crystals: Symmetry breaking and modulated phases

1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 3207-3224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Maclenna ◽  
Ulrich Sohling ◽  
Noel A. Clark ◽  
Michael Seul
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Modulated Phases

scholarly journals Y-shaped tricatenar azobenzenes – functional liquid crystals with synclinic–anticlinic transitions and spontaneous helix formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (37) ◽  
pp. 12902-12916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Alaasar ◽  
Silvio Poppe ◽  
Yu Cao ◽  
Changlong Chen ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Crystalline Phases ◽  
Helix Formation ◽  
Liquid Crystalline Phases ◽  
Bicontinuous Cubic

The photoisomerizable functional azobenzene unit is organized in synclinic hexatic, anticlinic smectic and bicontinuous cubic liquid crystalline phases as well as in achiral or mirror symmetry broken isotropic network liquids.

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