Search Results - "Takezoe, H"
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Spontaneous achiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystalline phases
Published in Topics in current chemistry (01-01-2012)“…It is well known that spontaneous deracemization or spontaneous chiral resolution occasionally occurs when racemic molecules are crystallized. However, it is…”
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Polarization-Modulated Smectic Liquid Crystal Phases
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (29-08-2003)“…Any polar-ordered material with a spatially uniform polarization field is internally frustrated: The symmetry-required local preference for polarization is to…”
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Laser-driven microflow-induced bistable orientation of a nematic liquid crystal in perfluoropolymer-treated unrubbed cells
Published in Optics express (14-01-2013)“…We demonstrate laser-driven microflow-induced orientational change (homeotropic to planar) in a dye-doped nematic liquid crystal. The homeotropic to planar…”
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Effect of Phase Retardation on Defect-Mode Lasing in Polymeric Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (17-05-2004)“…Lasing via a phase retardation defect mode is reported for the first time. The Figure shows the far‐field pattern of laser emission realized by inserting an…”
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Distinctive thermal behavior and nanoscale phase separation in the heterogeneous liquid-crystal B4 matrix of bent-core molecules
Published in Physical review letters (02-12-2011)“…By means of high-resolution calorimetry, we studied thermodynamic properties of the liquid-crystal B(4) phase where bent-core molecules form a helical…”
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Room-temperature discotic cholesteric and nematic phases: influence of 3,7-dimethyloctane peripheral chain on the molecular self-assembly of radial polyalkynylbenzene
Published in Liquid crystals (01-01-2011)“…A series of novel radial symmetrical and non-symmetrical polyalkynylbenzene-based chiral and achiral disc-shaped materials with respectively five and six…”
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Defect-Mode Lasing with Lowered Threshold in a Three-Layered Hetero-Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Structure
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (19-01-2006)“…A novel defect mode is realized in a three‐layered structure: a left‐handed cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer sandwiched between right‐handed CLC films…”
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Electrotunable Non-reciprocal Laser Emission from a Liquid-Crystal Photonic Device
Published in Advanced functional materials (18-09-2006)“…A liquid crystal (LC) photonic device with an anisotropic optical heterojunction structure has been fabricated. The device has a phase‐retarding nematic LC…”
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Appearance of a liquid crystalline nematic-isotropic critical point in a mixture system of rod- and bent-shaped molecules
Published in Physical review letters (10-11-2006)“…Heat capacity measurements have been made on a liquid-crystal mixture system formed from bent-shaped molecule 1,3-phenylene…”
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Non-symmetrical discotic liquid crystalline dimers: molecular design, synthesis and mesomorphic properties
Published in Liquid crystals (01-05-2010)“…The synthesis and mesomorphic properties of novel non-symmetrical discotic dimers have been investigated. Dimers have been prepared by the combination of…”
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Splay bend elasticity of a bent-core nematic liquid crystal
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (01-01-2010)“…We measured the splay (K11) and bend (K33) elastic constants in the nematic phase of a bent-core liquid crystal. In the vicinity of the nematic-isotropic…”
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A racemic layer structure in a chiral bent-core ferroelectric liquid crystal
Published in Liquid crystals (30-09-2001)“…A fluid smectic phase of a chiral bent-core liquid crystal was found to have a ground state structure that is anticlinic in tilt and ferroelectric in polar…”
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Transparent Organic Thin-Film Transistor with a Laterally Grown Non-Planar Phthalocyanine Channel
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (17-02-2004)“…An improved‐performance transparent organic thin‐film transistor (OTFT) is described, which has a vanadyl‐phthalocyanine (VOPc) film as an active p‐channel,…”
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Blue Phase III-Isotropic Phase Transition in a Bent-Core Liquid Crystal with Chiral Dopant
Published in Ferroelectrics (01-01-2012)“…Calorimetric measurements and optical observations have been performed to investigate the effect of chirality on a bent-core nematic (BCN) material which can…”
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Alignment of unconventional nematic liquid crystals
Published in Liquid crystals (01-07-2011)“…Planar (homogeneous) and homeotropic alignment of some unconventional nematic liquid crystals with both positive (Δε > 0) and negative (Δε < 0) dielectric…”
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Calorimetric studies on isotropic-B4 phase transition in the mixture of bent-shaped and rod-like molecules
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Viscoelasticity of ambient-temperature nematic binary mixtures of bent-core and rodlike molecules
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (11-01-2012)“…We report measurements of the temperature variations of physical parameters in ambient-temperature nematic liquid crystal mixtures of bent-core (BC) and…”
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Application of a Transparent Conductive Substrate with an Atomically Flat and Stepped Surface to Lateral Growth of an Organic Molecule: Vanadyl Phthalocyanine
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (05-08-2003)“…The lateral growth of an organic molecule on a transparent conductive substrate—important for molecular electronics—is demonstrated using vanadyl…”
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Self-Assembled Silica Photonic Crystal as a Liquid-Crystal Alignment Layer and its Electro-optic Applications in Fabry-Perot Cavity Structures
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (04-10-2004)“…Microgrooves on self‐assembled photonic‐crystal (PC) films align liquid crystals (LCs) without any additional rubbing or surface treatment. Nematic (see Figure…”
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Ideal Liquid Crystal Display Mode Using Achiral Banana-Shaped Liquid Crystals
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