Structure of the twist-bend nematic phase with respect to the orientational molecular order of the thioether-linked dimers
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| author | Kocot, Antoni Loska, Barbara Arakawa, Yuki Merkel, Katarzyna |
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| contents | An analysis of the IR absorbance for the segmented functional groups of liquid crystal dimers: mesogen and linker, enabled the orientation order to be determined and information about the dipole interactions in the nematic and twist-bend nematic phases to be obtained. The long axis orientational order increases as the temperature decreases in the nematic phase, although much more slowly than for the classical nematics, and then reverses this trend in the twist-bend nematic phase due to the tilt of the molecules. In the nematic phase, the short axis of the molecule performs an isotropic uniform rotation and has a uniaxial alignment. In the twist-bend nematic phase, however, biaxial ordering occurs and grows significantly in accordance with the helical deformation of the director. Changes in the mean absorbance in the twist-bend nematic phase were observed: a decrease for the longitudinal dipole at the nematic-twist-bend nematic phase transition, thus emphasizing the antiparallel axial interaction of the dipoles, while the absorbance of the transverse dipoles remains unchanged up to 340 K, and then the latter become parallelly correlated. |
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| spellingShingle | Structure of the twist-bend nematic phase with respect to the orientational molecular order of the thioether-linked dimers Kocot, Antoni Loska, Barbara Arakawa, Yuki Merkel, Katarzyna Soft Condensed Matter An analysis of the IR absorbance for the segmented functional groups of liquid crystal dimers: mesogen and linker, enabled the orientation order to be determined and information about the dipole interactions in the nematic and twist-bend nematic phases to be obtained. The long axis orientational order increases as the temperature decreases in the nematic phase, although much more slowly than for the classical nematics, and then reverses this trend in the twist-bend nematic phase due to the tilt of the molecules. In the nematic phase, the short axis of the molecule performs an isotropic uniform rotation and has a uniaxial alignment. In the twist-bend nematic phase, however, biaxial ordering occurs and grows significantly in accordance with the helical deformation of the director. Changes in the mean absorbance in the twist-bend nematic phase were observed: a decrease for the longitudinal dipole at the nematic-twist-bend nematic phase transition, thus emphasizing the antiparallel axial interaction of the dipoles, while the absorbance of the transverse dipoles remains unchanged up to 340 K, and then the latter become parallelly correlated. |
| title | Structure of the twist-bend nematic phase with respect to the orientational molecular order of the thioether-linked dimers |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17523 |