A Ten-Year Perspective on Twist-Bend Nematic Materials

A Ten-Year Perspective on Twist-Bend Nematic Materials

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The discovery of the twist-bend nematic phase (NTB) transpharm online shopping is a milestone within the field of liquid crystals.The NTB phase has a helical structure, with a repeat length of a few nanometres, and is therefore chiral, even when formed by achiral molecules.The discovery and rush to understand the rich physics of the NTB phase has provided a fresh impetus to the design and characterisation of invertatop squeeze bottle dimeric and oligomeric liquid crystalline materials.Now, ten years after the discovery of the NTB phase, we review developments in this area, focusing on how molecular features relate to the incidence of this phase, noting the progression from simple symmetrical dimeric materials towards complex oligomers, non-covalently bonded supramolecular systems.