Chiral and antichiral order in bent-core liquid crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Selinger, Jonathan V ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BENT CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS; CHIRAL ORDER; CHIRALITY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037864310     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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