Search for microscopic and macroscopic biaxiality in the cybotactic nematic phase of new oxadiazole bent-core mesogens
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- Title
- Search for microscopic and macroscopic biaxiality in the cybotactic nematic phase of new oxadiazole bent-core mesogens
- Authors
- KIM, YOUNGKI; Cukrov, G.; Vita, F.; Scharrer, E.; Samulski, E. T.; Francescangeli, O.; Lavrentovich, O. D.
- Date Issued
- 2016-06-01
- Publisher
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
- Abstract
- The possibility of biaxial orientational order in nematic liquid crystals is a subject of intense current interest. We explore the tendencies toward local and global biaxial ordering in the recently synthesized trimethylated oxadiazole-based bent-core mesogens with a pronounced asymmetric (bow-type) shape of molecules. The combination of x-ray diffraction and optical studies suggests that the biaxial order is expressed differently at the short- and long-range scales. Locally, at the scale of a few molecules, x-ray-diffraction data demonstrate biaxial packing. However, above the mesoscopic scale, the global orientational order in all three compounds is uniaxial, as evidenced by uniform homeotropic alignment of the nematic phase which is optically tested over the entire temperature range and by the observations of topological defects induced by individual and aggregated colloidal spheres in the nematic bulk.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/99461
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.062701
- ISSN
- 2470-0045
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Physical Review E, vol. 93, no. 6, page. 062701, 2016-06-01
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