In recent years bent-core (BC) liquid crystals have begun to mature into a relevant subfield of research. The shape and symmetry of BC molecules offers a wealth of new questions not presented by calamitic liquid crystals, many of which have yet to be addressed. In this work, I use magnetic field induced birefringence, dynamic light scattering, and density measurements to provide evidence of a transition between two optically isotropic phases in two BC liquid crystals, and to show that this transition can be understood in the framework of the theoretically predicted, but previously unobserved...
In recent years bent-core (BC) liquid crystals have begun to mature into a relevant subfield of research. The shape and symmetry of BC molecules offer...