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Jeffrey C. Roberts
Researcher at Queen's University
Publications - 10
Citations - 262
Jeffrey C. Roberts is an academic researcher from Queen's University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liquid crystal & Mesogen. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 10 publications receiving 243 citations.
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Design of Liquid Crystals with “de Vries-like” Properties: Frustration between SmA- and SmC-Promoting Elements
Jeffrey C. Roberts,Nadia Kapernaum,Qingxiang Song,Dorothee Nonnenmacher,Khurshid Ayub,Frank Giesselmann,Robert P. Lemieux +6 more
TL;DR: Measurements of smectic layer spacing d as a function of temperature by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) combined with optical tilt angle measurements revealed that compounds 3(n) are characterized by low orientational and high translational order, which is consistent with theoretical predictions that such materials should exhibit de Vries-like properties.
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Design of liquid crystals with "de Vries-like" properties: organosiloxane mesogen with a 5-phenylpyrimidine core.
TL;DR: This new material is characterized by a maximum layer contraction of 1.2% upon SmA-SmC phase transition and is comparable to the best "de Vries-like" materials reported heretofore.
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Electroclinic effect in chiral SmA* liquid crystals induced by atropisomeric biphenyl dopants : amplification of the electroclinic coefficient using achiral additives
TL;DR: In this paper, the atropisomeric compound (R)-2,2′,6,6′-tetramethyl-3,3′-dinitro-4,4′-bis[(4-nonyloxybenzoyl)oxy]biphenyl ((R)-1) was doped in the achiral liquid crystal hosts 2-(4-butoxyphenyl)-5-octyloxypyrimidine (2-PhP) and 4-(4)-heptyl[1,1′-
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Elucidating the smectic A-promoting effect of halogen end-groups in calamitic liquid crystals
Ian Rupar,Kirk M. Mulligan,Jeffrey C. Roberts,Dorothee Nonnenmacher,Frank Giesselmann,Robert P. Lemieux +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the electron-withdrawing effect of the chloro end-group is not due to strong polar interactions at the layer interfaces, as previously postulated in the literature.
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Fast switching organosiloxane ferroelectric liquid crystals
TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis and characterization of organosiloxane 2-phenylpyrimidine mesogens with chiral (R,R)-2,3-difluorooctyloxy side-chains was reported.