Journal
LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 49, Issue 7-9, Pages 1078-1146Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2022.2028313
Keywords
Liquid crystals; bent-core compounds; mesophases; polar; physical properties
Funding
- Science and Engineering Research Board [CRG/2019/000425]
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A comprehensive review and outlook on bent-core liquid crystals, including advances in design and structure-property correlation, and future directions from chemical and physical perspectives.
Bent-core liquid crystals (BLCs) are a class of thermotropic LCs that exhibit chiral and polar superstructures in achiral molecules. Progress in design and synthesis of novel bent-core architectures in search of unconventional properties enriched the field of BLCs. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the recent bent-shaped LCs, discuss relevant simulation and theoretical models, which draws a comparison to experimental results, survey the advances in the molecular design and structure-property correlation, and predict the future directions from chemical and physical perspectives. This review article is dedicated in commemoration of Prof. B K Sadashiva, a pioneer chemist who made a notable contribution to the field of bent-core liquid crystals.
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