The elusive thermotropic biaxial nematic phase in rigid bent-core molecules

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-237

  Acharya, Bharat ^a   Primak, Andrew ^a   Dingemans, Theo J ^b   Samulski, Edward T ^b   Kumar, Satyendra ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Banana liquid crystals; Bent core liquid crystals; Biaxial nematic phase; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; TEXTURES; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL TEXTURE; RIGID BENT CORE MOLECULES; THERMOTROPIC BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0042821601     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02708305     Document Type: Article

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