Transition from lamellar to nanostructure mesophases in azobenzene-based hockey-stick polycatenars

Mohamed Alaasar, Xiaoqian Cai, Yu Cao and Feng Liu

New J. Chem., 2022, 46, 15871
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Cluster phases of 4-cyanoresorcinol derived hockey-stick liquid crystals

Mohamed Alaasar, Silvio Poppe, Christoph Kerzig, Christoph Klopp, Alexey Eremin and Carsten Tschierske

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 8454
DOI: 10.1039/C7TC01816A

Competition between helical and heliconical twist in the development of complex soft matter structures

Büşra Yıldız Özdemir, Aykun Özkonstanyan, Christian Anders, Demet Karaca Balta, Hale Ocak Gümrükçü, Carsten Tschierske and Mohamed Alaasar

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2026, 14, 1260
DOI: 10.1039/D5TC03348A

Extraordinary magnetic field effects on the LC phases of homochiral and racemic 4-cyanoresorcinol-based diamagnetic bent-core mesogens

Hale Ocak, Belkız Bilgin Eran, Sevgi Nuray, Aykun Özkonstanyan, Silvio Poppe and Carsten Tschierske

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 1895
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC05355D

Controlling the formation of heliconical smectic phases by molecular design of achiral bent-core molecules

Marco Poppe, Mohamed Alaasar, Anne Lehmann, Silvio Poppe, Maria-Gabriela Tamba, Marharyta Kurachkina, Alexey Eremin, Mamatha Nagaraj, Jagdish K. Vij, Xiaoqian Cai, Feng Liu and Carsten Tschierske

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 3316
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06456G

Development of ferroelectricity in the smectic phases of 4-cyanoresorcinol derived achiral bent-core liquid crystals with long terminal alkyl chains

S. P. Sreenilayam, Yu. P. Panarin, J. K. Vij, A. Lehmann, M. Poppe and C. Tschierske

Phys. Rev. Materials, 2017, 1
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.035604

Imine based chiral liquid crystals: Effect of varying the terminal substituent and orientation of ester linking unit

Gürkan Karanlık, Hale Ocak and Belkız Bilgin Eran

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019, 275, 567
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.11.102

Hockey-Stick Polycatenars: Network formation and transition from one dimensional to three-dimensional liquid crystalline phases

Mohamed Alaasar and Silvio Poppe

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022, 351, 118613
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.118613

Chiral polymorphism in new imine based rod-like liquid crystals

Fatma Pınar Çağlar, Huriye Akdaş-Kılıç, Hale Ocak and Belkız Bilgin Eran

Journal of Molecular Structure, 2020, 1220, 128755
DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.128755

Chemical and physical aspects of recent bent-shaped liquid crystals exhibiting chiral and achiral mesophases

Supreet Kaur, Vidhika Punjani, Neelam Yadav, Abinash Barthakur, Anshika Baghla, Surajit Dhara and Santanu Kumar Pal

Liquid Crystals, 2022, 49, 1078
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2022.2028313

Synthesis, mesomorphic and dielectric properties of new bent-core liquid crystal with a terminal lactate group

Hale Ocak, Nimet Yilmaz Canli and Belkız Bilgin Eran

Journal of Molecular Structure, 2021, 1223, 128975
DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.128975

Influences of Central Units and Terminal Chains on the Banana-Shaped Liquid Crystals

Tang Xin Ting, Mohd Sani Sarjadi and Md Lutfor Rahman

Crystals, 2020, 10, 857
DOI: 10.3390/cryst10100857

Polar Order, Mirror Symmetry Breaking, and Photoswitching of Chirality and Polarity in Functional Bent‐Core Mesogens

Mohamed Alaasar, Marko Prehm, Sebastian Belau, Nerea Sebastián, Marharyta Kurachkina, Alexey Eremin, Changlong Chen, Feng Liu and Carsten Tschierske

Chemistry A European J, 2019, 25, 6362
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201806180

Stereochemical Rules Govern the Soft Self‐Assembly of Achiral Compounds: Understanding the Heliconical Liquid‐Crystalline Phases of Bent‐Core Mesogens

Anne Lehmann, Mohamed Alaasar, Marco Poppe, Silvio Poppe, Marko Prehm, Mamatha Nagaraj, Sithara P. Sreenilayam, Yuri P. Panarin, Jagdish K. Vij and Carsten Tschierske

Chemistry A European J, 2020, 26, 4714
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904871

Pyridine-based chiral smectogens: effects of polar end groups on liquid crystal properties

Deniz Vardar, Huriye Akdaş Kılıç, Hale Ocak, Olivier Jeannin, Franck Camerel and Belkız Bilgin Eran

Liquid Crystals, 2021, 48, 616
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2020.1799445

Development of Polar Order by Liquid‐Crystal Self‐Assembly of Weakly Bent Molecules

Mohamed Alaasar, Marko Prehm, Silvio Poppe and Carsten Tschierske

Chemistry A European J, 2017, 23, 5541
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201606035

Mirror symmetry breaking in liquids and liquid crystals

Carsten Tschierske

Liquid Crystals, 2018, 45, 2221
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2018.1501822

The Magic 4-Cyanoresocinols - Their Role in the Understanding of Phenomena at the Rod-Banana Cross-Over and Relations to Twist-Bend Phases and Other Newly Emerging LC Phase Types

Carsten Tschierske

Liquid Crystals, 2022, 49, 1043
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2021.2010142

Synthesis and characterization of new bent-core liquid crystal with a ferroelectric-like switching / modified magnetite nanocomposite

Aykun Özkonstanyan, Hatice Hande Mert, Mehmet Selçuk Mert, Belkız Bilgin Eran and Hale Ocak

Journal of Molecular Structure, 2020, 1222, 128851
DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.128851