Liebsch, JasminStrachan, RebeccaSuthaharan, SivanujanDominguez-Candela, IvanAuria-Soro, CarlotaSan-Millan, AndresWalker, RebeccaChilukuri, BhaskarBlanca Ros, M.Martinez-Felipe, Alfonso2024-03-192024-03-192024-04-01Liebsch, J, Strachan, R, Suthaharan, S, Dominguez-Candela, I, Auria-Soro, C, San-Millan, A, Walker, R, Chilukuri, B, Blanca Ros, M & Martinez-Felipe, A 2024, 'Tailoring the dielectric and ferroelectric response of mixtures containing bent-core liquid crystals through light-irradiation and composition', Journal of molecular liquids, vol. 399, 124371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2024.1243710167-7322RIS: urn:BA870B6BAB785640BC8198B634A48AD8ORCID: /0000-0002-2394-3322/work/161797131https://hdl.handle.net/2164/23075Open access via the Elsevier Agreement IDC would like to thank the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), for the FPI grant (PAID-2019-SP20190013), the Generalitat Valenciana (GVA) and the European Social Fund (ESF), for the FPI grant (ACIF/2020/233) and the mobility grant (CIBEFP/2022/45). AMF would like to thank the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, for the Research Incentive Grant RIG008586, the Royal Society and Specac Ltd., for the Research Grant RGS\R1\201397, the Royal Society of Chemistry for the award of a mobility grant (M19- 0000), the Scottish Government and the Royal Society of Edinburgh for the award of a SAPHIRE project, NHS Scotland for the 20/016 R&D Endowments Award, and the University of Aberdeen for the CF10801-10 and CF10723-44 pump priming grants. The authors from INMA greatly appreciate financial support from projects of the Spanish Government PID2021-122882NB-I00 [MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE] and the Gobierno de Aragón/FEDER (research group E47_23R); and C.A-S for the FPI Fellowship PRE2019-090773. Thanks are given to the nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis services of CEQMA (Univ. Zaragoza-CSIC). BC is grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting this work under grant no. CHE- 2306317. BC also thanks Illinois State University (ISU) for their financial support through university research grant (URG). Computational work is performed using resources from High Performance Computing (HPC) at Illinois State University.119524106engAzobenzenesBent-core liquid crystalsFerroelectricityDielectric spectroscopyEnergy storageDensity functional theoryTA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TAJournal article10.1016/j.molliq.2024.124371399