The York Research Database

Datasets

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

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• Dataset for "Etheric Bimesogens and the Twist-Bend Nematic Phase"

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• Progression from Nano to Macro Science in Soft Matter Systems: Dimers to Trimers and Oligomers in Twist-Bend Liquid Crystals

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

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• Dataset for: A Nematic to Nematic Transformation Exhibited by a Rod-Like Liquid Crystal

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• Dataset for paper "Evaluation of 4-Alkoxy-4′-Nitrobiphenyl Liquid Crystals for use in Next Generation Scattering LCDs"

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• Dataset for "An Experimental and Computational Study of Calamitic and Bimesogenic Liquid Crystals Incorporating an Optically Active [2,2]-Paracyclophane"

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

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

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• Data from the paper "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"

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• Data from the paper: 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

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• A Twist-bend Nematic to an Intercalated, Anticlinic, Biaxial Phase Transition in Liquid Crystal Bimesogens

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• Dataset for "Interplay between Molecular Pairing, Smectic Layer Spacing, Dielectric Anisotropy and Reentrant Phenomena in alkenyloxy Cyanobiphenyls "

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

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

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

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

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

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• Dataset for: Dependence of Mesomorphic Behaviour of Methylene-Linked Dimers and the Stability of the NTB/NX Phase upon Choice of Mesogenic Units and Terminal Chain Length

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

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• MD input files from the paper "Experimental and molecular dynamics studies of anthraquinone dyes in a nematic liquid-crystal host: a rationale for observed alignment trends"

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• MD input files from the paper "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"

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• Dataset for: Optically Active Bimesogens Incorporating Branched Central Spacers

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• Chiral Dopants and the Twist Bend Nematic Phase - Induction of Two Novel Phases of Mater in an Apolar Bimesogen

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• MD input files from the paper: 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

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• Dataset for: Condensation of free volume in structures of nematic and hexatic liquid crystals

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Prizes

• Freederickzs Medal of the Russian Liquid Crystal Society

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

• AkzoNobel UK Science Prize

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

• Royal Medal

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Activities

• Enhanced Smectic A Stability in Rod-Like Materials by Incorporating Cyclic End Groups

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Research outputs

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Liquid crystalline dihydroazulene photoswitches

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Photoswitching of Dihydroazulene Derivatives in Liquid-Crystalline Host Systems

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Developments in liquid-crystalline dimers and oligomers

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Optically Active Bimesogens Incorporating Branched Central Spacers

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Etheric bimesogens and the twist-bend nematic phase

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Isomeric trimesogens exhibiting modulated nematic mesophases

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Engineering mesophase stability and structure via incorporation of cyclic terminal groups

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review