Enhancement of the helical twisting power with increasing the terminal chain length of nonchiral bent-core molecules doped in a chiral nematic liquid crystal

Seong-Yong Jo, Byeong-Cheon Kim, Sung-Wook Jeon, Jae-Hyun Bae, Martin Walker, Mark Wilson, Suk-Won Choi, Hideo Takezoe
2017 RSC Advances  
We measured the helical twisting power (HTP) of nonchiral bent-core molecules doped in a chiral nematic liquid crystal, and found that HTP increases with the terminal chain length.
doi:10.1039/c6ra27158h fatcat:dgtaoct6a5he7jrxz7rinvik74