This Review covers the recent developments (2005–2015) in the design, synthesis,
characterization, and application of thermotropic ionic liquid crystals. It was designed to give …

Interest in the smectic liquid‐crystalline state of matter received a substantial boost with the
discovery by Meyer in the mid‐1970s that a chiral smectic C (SmC*) phase exhibits a …

Liquid crystals (LCs) represent one of the foundations of modern communication and
photonic technologies. Present display technologies are based mainly on nematic LCs …

Since the discovery of the first ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) in the chiral smectic C (SmC*)
phase, ferroelectricity in liquid crystals has attracted much attention due to not only the …

This critical review focuses on the induction of polar order in smectic liquid crystal phases by
dopants with axially chiral cores, and should be of interest to all practitioners of …

There is a great interest in smectic materials that show no layer shrinkage (NLS) in the
transition from smectic A to smectic C. Such materials are often discussed in terms of “de …

Study of a diverse set of chiral smectic materials, each of which has twist grain boundary
(TGB) phases over a broad temperature range and exhibits grid patterns in the Grandjean …

Molecular tilting effect to the Smectic layer normal at Smectic C phase liquid crystal is
investigated in terms of its retardation switching effect. This investigation clarified that in …

A homologous series of liquid-crystalline compounds with an azo-group in the molecular
core have been synthesized. A tendency for the layer shrinkage at the SmA–SmC* phase …

Structural investigations of the de Vries smectic-A (Sm A) and smectic-C (Sm C) phases of
four mesogens containing a trisiloxane end segment reveal a linear molecular conformation …