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 …

This is a book on the dissipative dynamics of ordered fluids, with a particular focus on liquid
crystals. It covers a whole range of different theories, mainly concerned with nematic liquid …

The self-organizing properties of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) can be used to align carbon
nanotubes (CNTs) dispersed in them. In the previous paper [P. van der Schoot, V. Popa …

Dynamic light scattering from orientational order fluctuations in a liquid crystalline tetrapode
reveals successive, weakly first-order isotropic to uniaxial and uniaxial to biaxial nematic …

We study a discrete version of a biaxial nematic liquid crystal model with external fields via
an approach based on the solution of differential identities for the partition function. In the …

In this paper, a wealth of notations introduced in the past 30 years to denote second‐rank
orientational order parameters for biaxial nematics are compared, stressing sources of …

Nematic liquid crystal phase diagrams in temperature-biaxiality space are usually complex.
We construct a Landau theory based on the analogous molecular-field theory for …

Starting from a dynamic tensor model about two second-order tensors, we derive the frame
hydrodynamics for the biaxial nematic phase using the Hilbert expansion. The coefficients in …

We present a phenomenological theory for the homogeneous phases of nematic liquid
crystals constituted by biaxial molecules. We propose a general polynomial potential in two …

Board-shaped polymers form sanidic mesophases: assemblies of parallel lamellae of
stacked polymer backbones separated by disordered side chains. Sanidics vary significantly …