Polycatenar mesogens with a perfluorinated moiety showing liquid crystalline polymorphism and, microscopically, a continuous smectic A to structured, fluid, optically isotropic phase transition

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1887-1893

  Nishikawa, Etsushi ^a   Yamamoto, Jun ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

SMALL-ANGLE REFLECTION;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ALKYL GROUP; POLYCATENAR MESOGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FLUORINATION; LIQUID; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0042567566     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b303776b     Document Type: Article

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