Biaxial nematic (N b) liquid crystals are a fascinating condensed matter phase that has
baffled, for more than thirty years, scientists engaged in the challenge of demonstrating its …

We have synthesized liquid crystal (LC) mesogens based on a nonlinear oxadiazole unit
that exhibit nematic phases near 200° C. Polarized microscopy and conoscopy indicate that …

An overview over the current state of research in the field of biaxial nematic liquid crystalline
materials is given. After a short introduction, providing some general aspects and …

Infrared absorbance measurements have been carried out on two liquid crystalline organo-
siloxane tetrapodes. Results unambiguously show the existence of a biaxial nematic phase …

An intermediate nematic phase is proposed for the interpretation of recent experimental
results on phase biaxiality in bent-core nematic liquid crystals. The phase is macroscopically …

We consider a fluid of hard boomerangs, each composed of two hard spherocylinders joined
at their ends at an angle ψ. The resulting particle is nonconvex and biaxial. The occurence …

Deuterium NMR is used to examine the molecular order exhibited by an organosiloxane
tetrapode giving the first experimental evidence, using a bulk sample, for the existence of a …

Mesogens containing rod-shaped moieties as well as one disk-shaped group exhibit
nematic phase behavior and are entirely miscible with rod-and disk-shaped mesogens in …

Besides the uniaxial nematic phase, omnipresent in liquid crystal (LC) displays, the biaxial
nematic phase has been theoretically proposed to exist in which all molecular axes are …

The phase behavior of a binary mixture of rodlike and disclike hard molecules is studied
using Monte Carlo NVT (constant number of particles N, volume V, and temperature T) …