Surface-imaging of frozen blue phases in a discotic liquid crystal with atomic force microscopy

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2223-2229

  Hauser, Anton ^a   Thieme, Mario ^a   Saupe, Alfred ^a   Heppke, Gerd ^b   Krüerke, Daniel ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 0000190242     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a703272b     Document Type: Article

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