Rational Design of the First Nonspherical Dendrimer Which Displays Calamitic Nematic and Smectic Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Phases

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 117, Issue 46, 1995, Pages 11441-11454

  Percec, Virgil ^a   Chu, Peihwei ^a   Ungar, Goran ^b   Zhou, Jianping ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CALAMITIC CRYSTALLINE PHASE; MONODENDRONS; NONSPHERICAL DENDRIMERS; RATIONAL DESIGN; SUPRAMOLECULAR LIQUID CRYSTALS;

MONOMERS;

EID: 0029402414     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja00151a008     Document Type: Article

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