Bent-Core Mesogens with Branched Carbosilane Termini:Flipping Suprastructural Chirality without Reversing Polarity

摘要

Materials with macroscopic polar order have widespread potential applications in molecular electronics and photonics.Thediscovery that achiral bent-core(bow-or banana-shaped)molecules can organize into fluid phases with polar order and macroscopic chirality opened an intriguing new area in the field of liquid-crystal(LC)research.