Abstract
Systematic physical chemistry studies are in progress concerning the occurrence of incommensurate low ordered smectic phases (Sic) in non-symmetric dimesogens with molecular parameters varying from those of the standard compound KI-5(4). In the present study, the selected molecules possess the same cholesteryl unit and the same spacer length, but the terminal chain of the aromatic mesogenic part is varied. Up to a critical molecular length, a competition between two incommensuratelengths is observed and the dimesogeniccompounds respond to the frustration connected to this competition with the formation either of an incommensurate phase Sic or of a two dimensional modulated phase. For longer dimesogens, a commensurate lock-in of the two characteristic lengths systematically occurs.
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