Ch. Legrand

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the phase polymorphism of 4-(1-methylheptyloxycarbonyl)phenyl-4-nonylbiphenyl- 4-carboxylate (MHPNBC) analogues and found that in addition to the para-, ferro- and antiferroelectric phases it exhibits three sub-phases (two ferri- and alpha sub-phase) and a highly ordered room temperature phase.

TL;DR: In this paper, two chiral liquid crystalline compounds have been investigated, namely 4-(1-methylheptyloxycarbonyl) phenyl-4′nonylbiphenyl- 4-carboxylate (MHPNBC), 3-(2-fluor-octyloxy)-6-(4octyl-phenyl) pyridine (FOOPP) to study the SmA ∗ -SmC ∗ transition.

TL;DR: In this article, two thioester compounds: (S)-(+)-4-(1-methylheptyloxy)biphenyl 4-hexyl-thiobenzoate (MHOBS7) and 1,3-phenylene bis{4-[(4-octyloxybenzoyl)-sulfanyl]benzoate} (in short: 8OSOR) built of banana like achiral molecules, have been studied by complementary methods to show differences in their linear dielectric as well as ferroelectric

TL;DR: In this article, two examples of hexatic phases have been presented to show that the highly ordered phases can be either the ferro- or antiferroelectric ones, and two kinds of smectic C*-hexatic transitions where the spontaneous polarisation changes either continuously or discontinuously in spite of the fact that from the thermodynamic standpoint both transitions are of the first order.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used dielectric and DSC methods to study liquid crystalline compound MHPNBC exhibiting para-, ferro-, ferri-, antiferroelectric and a highly ordered antiferrous like phase.