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Uniaxial and biaxial liquid crystal phases in colloidal dispersions of board-like particles

“…Without alignment in an external field the phase was also found, for example by using bent-core molecules in an anisotropic medium [32] and in a binary mixture of a board-like metallomesogen with trinitrofluorenone [33].…”

Experimental Realization of Biaxial Liquid Crystal Phases in Colloidal Dispersions of Boardlike Particles

“…Without alignment in an external field the phase was also found, for example, using bent-core molecules in an anisotropic medium [22] and in a binary mixture of a boardlike metallomesogen with trinitrofluorenone [23].…”

News about Soft Condensed Matter—A Liquid Crystal Meeting Review

“…[30] Charge transfer interactions may lead to a biaxial smectic phase, the McMillan phase C M . [31] The variety of the mesophases B 1 , B 2 ,... B 7 formed by bow-shaped molecules [32±35] is even more complex. Some of these phases show remarkable properties, such as antiferroelectric switching (B 2 , B 5 ) [18,34] or the formation of chiral domains made of nonchiral molecules (B 2 , B 4 , B 5 , B 7 ).…”