Intrinsically Chiral Twist-Bend Nematogens: Interplay of Molecular and Structural Chirality in the N TB Phase.

The front cover artwork is provided by Dr Rebecca Walker of the Liquid Crystals Group at the University of Aberdeen. The image is a cartoon depiction of the formation of the heliconical chiral twist-bend nematic phase (N* TB ) from its constituent bent molecules. The presence of a single enantiomer of the chiral, lactate-based liquid crystal dimers biases the formation of helices with only one handedness, unlike in the conventional N TB phase, observed for achiral molecules, for which the left- and right-handed helices are doubly degenerate. Read the full text of the Research Article at 10.1002/cphc.202200807.