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SOFT MATTER
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 850-855Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02480j
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- FP7 EU project BIND (Biaxial Nematic Devices) [216025]
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NMR measurements on a selectively deuterated liquid crystal dimer CB-C9-CB, exhibiting two nematic phases, show that the molecules in the lower temperature nematic phase, N-X, experience a chiral environment and are ordered about a uniformly oriented director throughout the macroscopic sample. The results are contrasted with previous interpretations that suggested a twist-bend spatial variation of the director. A structural picture is proposed wherein the molecules are packed into highly correlated chiral assemblies.
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