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Structure of the twist-bend nematic phase with respect to the orientational molecular order of the thioether-linked dimers

Antoni Kocot, Barbara Loska, Katarzyna Merkel, Yuki Arakawa

In thioether-linked dimers, the twist-bend nematic phase develops biaxial ordering that grows with helical director deformation while longitudinal dipoles show antiparallel axial interactions.

arxiv:2605.17523 v1 · 2026-05-17 · cond-mat.soft

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In the twist-bend nematic phase, biaxial ordering occurs and grows significantly in accordance with the helical deformation of the director; a decrease in mean absorbance for the longitudinal dipole at the N-TB transition emphasizes antiparallel axial interaction of the dipoles.

C2weakest assumption

That measured changes in IR absorbance for segmented functional groups can be directly converted into orientational order parameters without significant interference from local field effects, conformational averaging, or temperature-dependent dipole strengths that are not independently calibrated.

C3one line summary

IR absorbance analysis of thioether-linked dimers shows long-axis order increasing slowly in the nematic phase then reversing in the twist-bend phase due to tilt, with growing biaxial order matching helical director deformation and antiparallel dipole correlations at the transition.

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[1] N.A. Clark and R.B. Meyer, Strain -induced instability of monodomain smectic A and cholesteric liquid crystals. Appl. Phys. Lett. 22 (10), 493-494 (1973) 1973

[2] D.R. Link, G. Natale, R. Shao, J.E. Maclennan, N. A . Clark, E. Körblova, D.M. Walba, Spontaneous Formation of Macroscopic Chiral Domains in a Fluid Smectic Phase of Achiral Molecules. Science 278, 19 1924

[3] M. J. Freiser, Ordered states of a nematic liquid. Rev. Lett. 24, 1041–1043 (1970) 1970

[4] Dozov, On the spontaneous symmetry breaking in the mesophases of achiral banana - shaped molecules 2001

[5] Memmer, Liquid crystal phases of achiral banana -shaped molecules: a computer simulation study 2002

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arxiv: 2605.17523 · arxiv_version: 2605.17523v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17523 · pith_short_12: B3FI2SNFIOZO · pith_short_16: B3FI2SNFIOZOCIT3 · pith_short_8: B3FI2SNF

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