scholarly journals Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in a re-entrant isotropic liquid

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (87) ◽  
pp. 15850-15853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Dressel ◽  
Wolfgang Weissflog ◽  
Carsten Tschierske
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Nematic Phase ◽  
Isotropic Liquid

An achiral double swallow tailed rod-like molecule forms a chirality synchronized isotropic liquid conglomerate between a chiral cubic and an achiral nematic phase.

Spontaneous Mirror-Symmetry Breaking in Isotropic Liquid Phases of Photoisomerizable Achiral Molecules

2015 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 320-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Alaasar ◽  
Marko Prehm ◽  
Yu Cao ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Carsten Tschierske
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Isotropic Liquid ◽  
Liquid Phases

Spontaneous Mirror-Symmetry Breaking in Isotropic Liquid Phases of Photoisomerizable Achiral Molecules

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 312-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Alaasar ◽  
Marko Prehm ◽  
Yu Cao ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Carsten Tschierske
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Isotropic Liquid ◽  
Liquid Phases

Achiral flexible liquid crystal trimers exhibiting chiral conglomerates

Soft Matter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 3331-3339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruna Sasaki ◽  
Yoichi Takanishi ◽  
Jun Yamamoto ◽  
Atsushi Yoshizawa
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Intermolecular Interactions ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Nematic Phase

The liquid crystal trimers form an achiral ground-state conformation in the nematic phase; however, by intermolecular interactions between cores they adopt a twisted chiral conformation to exhibit the spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in the low-temperature DC phase.

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 cubic phases and isotropic liquids driven by hydrogen bonding

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (96) ◽  
pp. 13869-13872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Alaasar ◽  
Silvio Poppe ◽  
Qingshu Dong ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Carsten Tschierske
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonding ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Cubic Phase ◽  
Isotropic Liquid ◽  
Alkyl Chains ◽  
Cubic Phases ◽  
Hydrogen Bonded

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.

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...

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