Phase behaviors of colloidal analogs of bent-core liquid crystals.

The article presents a systematic study on the phase behaviors of colloidal analogs of bentcore liquid crystals (LC) mesogens, which found that several typical banana phases are formed by assembling bent rods with controlled bending angle (a) and aspect ratio (L/D, with L and D as the length and diameter of each rod arm, respectively. It refers to phase diagrams that illustrate the existence and stability range of all the LC phases in a and L/D space.