To Be or Not To Be Polar: The Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Nematic Phases

Cruickshank, Ewan; Rybak, Paulina; Majewska, Magdalena M.; Ramsay, Shona; Wang, Cheng; Zhu, Chenhui; Walker, Rebecca; Storey, John M. D.; Imrie, Corrie T.; Gorecka, Ewa; Pociecha, Damian

doi:10.1021/acsomega.3c05884

Title: To Be or Not To Be Polar: The Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Nematic Phases

Journal Article · 17 September 2023 · ACS Omega

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c05884 · OSTI ID:2000758

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Department of Chemistry, School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K.
Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, ul. Zwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States

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