Imprinting chiral structures on liquid crystalline elastomers

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 22, 1998, Pages 2515-2516

  Hasson, Craig D ^a   Davis, Frederick J ^a   Mitchell, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CROSS LINKING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

EID: 0032556467     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a805891a     Document Type: Article

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