Nanoscale Engineering of Dyes for Liquid Crystal Dyes in Device Applications

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• 2025

  Remarkable preference for di-substitution in self-assembled glycolipids

  Besset, C., Chambert, S., Abbott, L. C., Moore, J. N., Goodby, J. W., Cowling, S. J. & Queneau, Y., 28 Dec 2025, In: Soft Matter. 21, 48, p. 9303-9322 20 p.

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• The Unusual Mesophases and Properties Exhibited by a Family of Glycosteroids

  Ali-Rachedi, F., Xavier, N. M., Yue, X., Chambert, S., Liu, F., Abbott, L. C., Moore, J. N., Zeng, X., Cowling, S. J., Queneau, Y. & Goodby, J. W., 20 Feb 2025, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 31, 11, 17 p., e202403678.

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• 2023

  Dyes for guest-host liquid crystal applications: a general approach to the rapid computational assessment of useful molecular designs

  Sims, M. T., Abbott, L. C., Mandle, R. J., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 3 Apr 2023, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25, 15, p. 10367-10383 17 p.

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• Unusual mesomorphic behaviour of silyloxy-linked chiral bimesogens

  Sia, S., Saez, I. M., Cowling, S. J., Abbott, L. C., Moore, J. N. & Goodby, J. W., 10 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 21 p.

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• 2022

  Engineering mesophase stability and structure via incorporation of cyclic terminal groups

  Mandle, R. J., Abbott, L. C., Fritsch, L., Parker, R. R., Hart, S., Whitwood, A. C., Cowling, S. J., Moore, J. N. & Goodby, J. W., 21 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10, 15, p. 5934-5943 10 p.

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• 2019

  Condensation of free volume in structures of nematic and hexatic liquid crystals

  Mandle, R., Stock, N., Cowling, S. J., Parker, R. R., Hart, S. J., Whitwood, A. C. & Goodby, J. W., 2019, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 46, 1, p. 114-123 10 p.

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• Considerations in the determination of orientational order parameters from X-ray scattering experiments

  Sims, M. T., Abbott, L. C., Richardson, R. M., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 2 Jan 2019, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 46, 1, p. 11-24 14 p.

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• New Synthetic Strategies and Disconnections in the Synthesis of Liquid Crystals Enabled by Photoredox Cross-Coupling Reactions

  Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 2019, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 46, 1, p. 4-10 7 p.

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• Shape segregation in molecular organisation: a combined X-ray scattering and molecular dynamics study of smectic liquid crystals

  Sims, M. T., Abbott, L. C., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 11 Sept 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Soft Matter.

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• 2018

  An experimental and computational study of calamitic and bimesogenic liquid crystals incorporating an optically active [2,2]-paracyclophane

  Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 22 Mar 2018, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 45, 11, p. 1567-1573 7 p.

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• Anomalously low twist and bend elastic constants in an oxadiazole-based bent-core nematic liquid crystal and its mixtures; contributions of spontaneous chirality and polarity

  Srigengan, S., Nagaraj, M., Ferrarini, A., Mandle, R., Cowling, S. J., Osipov, M., Pająk, G., Goodby, J. W. & Gleeson, H. F., Feb 2018, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 6, 9 p.

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• A novel nematic-like mesophase induced in dimers, trimers and tetramers doped with a high helical twisting power additive

  Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 24 Oct 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Soft Matter. p. 1-7 7 p.

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• Double helical structure of the twist-bend nematic phase by resonant x-ray scattering at the carbon and sulfur K-edges

  Salamończyk, M., Mandle, R., Makal, A., Liebman-Peláez, A., Feng, J., Goodby, J. W. & Zghu, C., 20 Nov 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Soft Matter. 6 p.

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• Inexpensive, Operationally Simple Flow Reactor for Rapid, Chromatography Free Synthesis of Siloxane Based Liquid Crystals

  Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 31 Jul 2018, In: Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 3, 4, p. 515-519 5 p.

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• Molecular shape as a means to control the incidence of the nanostructured twist bend phase

  Pocock, E. E., Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 12 Mar 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Soft Matter. 7 p.

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• Optically Active Bimesogens Incorporating Branched Central Spacers

  Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 22 May 2018, In: RSC Advances. 8, p. 18542-18548 7 p.

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• 2017

  A Nematic to Nematic Transformation Exhibited by a Rod-Like Liquid Crystal

  Mandle, R., Cowling, S. J. & Goodby, J. W., 14 May 2017, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19, 18, p. 11429-11435 7 p., 11429.

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• Combined Microscopy, Calorimetry and X-ray Scattering Study of Fluorinated Dimesogens

  Mandle, R., Cowling, S. J. & Goodby, J. W., 17 Oct 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 9 p., 13323.

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• Conformational landscapes of bimesogenic compounds and their implications for the formation of modulated nematic phases

  Archbold, C. T., Mandle, R., Andrews, J. L., Cowling, S. J. & Goodby, J. W., 2 Aug 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. p. 1-11 11 p.

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• Developments in liquid-crystalline dimers and oligomers

  Mandle, R. J., Stevens, M. P. & Goodby, J. W., 29 Jun 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 15 p.

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• Effect of the linking unit on the twist-bend nematic phase in liquid crystal dimers: a comparative study of two homologous series of methylene- and ether-linked dimers

  Archbold, C. T., Andrews, J. L., Mandle, R. J., Cowling, S. J. & Goodby, J. W., 2 Jan 2017, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 44, 1, p. 84-92 9 p.

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• Evaluation of 4-alkoxy-40-nitrobiphenyl liquid crystals for use in next generation scattering LCDs

  Mandle, R., Cowling, S. J. & Goodby, J. W., 18 Aug 2017, In: RSC Advances. 64, 6 p.

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• Free volume, molecular grains, self-organisation, and anisotropic entropy: machining materials

  Goodby, J. W., 11 Jul 2017, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. p. 1-9 9 p.

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• Guest-host systems containing anthraquinone dyes with multiple visible transitions giving positive and negative dichroic order parameters: an assessment of principal molecular axes and computational methods

  Sims, M. T., Mandle, R., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 1 Jun 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 18 p.

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• Investigating the Cusp between the Nano- and Macro-sciences in Supermolecular Liquid-Crystalline Twist-Bend Nematogens

  Simpson, F. P., Mandle, R., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 7 Jun 2017, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5, 21, p. 5102-5110 9 p.

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• Isomeric trimesogens exhibiting modulated nematic mesophases

  Mandle, R., Goodby, J. W. & Al-Janabi, A., 6 Oct 2017, In: RSC Advances. 7, 75, 8 p., 47235.

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• Photoswitching of Dihydroazulene Derivatives in Liquid-Crystalline Host Systems

  Petersen, A. U., Jevric, M., Mandle, R. J., Sims, M. T., Moore, J. N., Cowling, S. J., Goodby, J. W. & Nielsen, M. B., 11 Apr 2017, In: Chemistry : A European Journal. 23, 21, p. 5090-5103 14 p.

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• Principal molecular axis and transition dipole moment orientations in liquid crystal systems: an assessment based on studies of guest anthraquinone dyes in a nematic host

  Sims, M. T., Abbott, L. C., Cowling, S. J., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 7 Jan 2017, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19, 1, p. 813-827 15 p.

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• Rational Design of Rod-Like Liquid Crystals Exhibiting two Nematic Phases.

  Mandle, R., Cowling, S. J. & Goodby, J. W., 18 Sept 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chemistry : A European Journal. 10 p.

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• 2016

  A Liquid Crystalline Oligomer Exhibiting Nematic and Twist-Bend Nematic Mesophases

  Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 4 Apr 2016, In: ChemPhysChem. 17, 7, p. 1-4 4 p.

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• An interplay between molecular pairing, smectic layer spacing, dielectric anisotropy and re-entrant phenomena in ω-alkenyloxy cyanobiphenyls

  Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 31 Aug 2016, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. p. 1-11 11 p.

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• A twist-bend nematic to an intercalated, anticlinic, biaxial phase transition in liquid crystal bimesogens

  Mandle, R. J. & Goodby, J. W., 2016, In: Soft Matter. 12, 5, p. 1436-1443 8 p.

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• Dependence of Mesomorphic Behaviour of Methylene-Linked Dimers and the Stability of the N_TB/N_X Phase upon Choice of Mesogenic Units and Terminal Chain Length

  Mandle, R. J. & Goodby, J. W., 23 Jun 2016, In: Chemistry : A European Journal. 22, 27, p. 9366–9374 9 p.

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• Dyes as guests in ordered systems: current understanding and future directions

  Sims, M. T., 2 Jun 2016, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 12 p.

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• Etheric bimesogens and the twist-bend nematic phase

  Mandle, R. J., Voll, C. C. A., Lewis, D. J. & Goodby, J. W., 2016, In: LIQUID CRYSTALS. 2016, 43, p. 13-21

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• Experimental and molecular dynamics studies of anthraquinone dyes in a nematic liquid-crystal host: a rationale for observed alignment trends

  Sims, M. T., Abbott, L. C., Cowling, S. J., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 14 Aug 2016, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 18, 30, p. 20651-20663 13 p.

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• Intercalated soft-crystalline mesophase exhibited by an unsymmetrical twist-bend nematogen

  Mandle, R. & Goodby, J. W., 31 Oct 2016, In: CrystEngComm. p. 8794-8802 9 p.

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• Molecular Design Parameters of Anthraquinone Dyes for Guest-Host Liquid-Crystal Applications: Experimental and Computational Studies of Spectroscopy, Structure and Stability

  Sims, M. T., Abbott, L. C., Cowling, S. J., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 26 May 2016, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120, 20, p. 11151–11162 12 p.

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• The Dependency of Nematic and Twist-bend Mesophase Formation on Bend Angle

  Mandle, R., Archbold, C. T., Sarju, J. P., Andrews, J. L. & Goodby, J. W., 7 Nov 2016, In: Scientific Reports. 6, p. 1-12 13 p., 36682.

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• 2015

  Apolar bimesogens and the incidence of the twist-bend nematic phase

  Mandle, R. J., Davis, E. J., Archbold, C. T., Voll, C. C. A., Andrews, J. L., Cowling, S. J. & Goodby, J. W., 18 May 2015, In: Chemistry : A European Journal (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 21, 22, p. 8158-8167 10 p.

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• Dyes in Liquid Crystals: Experimental and Computational Studies of a Guest-Host System Based on a Combined DFT and MD Approach

  Sims, M. T., Abbott, L. C., Cowling, S. J., Goodby, J. W. & Moore, J. N., 6 Jul 2015, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 21, 28, p. 10123-10130 8 p.

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• Liquid crystalline dihydroazulene photoswitches

  Petersen, A. U., Jevric, M., Mandle, R. J., Davis, E. J., Cowling, S. J., Goodby, J. W. & Nielsen, M. B., 13 Oct 2015, In: RSC Advances. 5, 109, p. 89731-89744 14 p.

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• Raman scattering studies of order parameters in liquid crystalline dimers exhibiting the nematic and twist-bend nematic phases

  Zhang, Z., Panov, V. P., Nagaraj, M., Mandle, R. J., Goodby, J. W., Luckhurst, G. R., Jones, J. C. & Gleeson, H. F., 7 Sept 2015, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 3, 38, p. 10007-10016 10 p.

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