An unusual type of polymorphism in a liquid crystal

Polymorphism is a property that allows a material to exist in two or more crystal structures. Here the authors observe thermal-induced structural polymorphism in a bent-core liquid crystal compound and show that by choosing the cooling rate, different structures with distinct structural colours are...

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Main Authors: Lin Li, Mirosław Salamończyk, Sasan Shadpour, Chenhui Zhu, Antal Jákli, Torsten Hegmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03160-9