Stacking of conical molecules with a fullerene apex into polar columns in crystals and liquid crystals

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6908, 2002, Pages 702-705

  Sawamura, Masaya ^a   Kawai, Kenji ^a   Matsuo, Yutaka ^a   Kanie, Kiyoshi ^a   Kato, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; FULLERENES; MOLECULES; STACKING FAULTS;

POLAR COLUMNS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

FULLERENE;

CRYSTAL; LIQUID;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037126289     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01110     Document Type: Article

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