Chirality issues and interesting properties of achiral and racemic materials with bent molecular structures

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 309-312, Issue , 2004, Pages 95-100

  Hird, Michael ^a   Raoul, Yann ^a   Goodby, John W ^a   Gleeson, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banana phases; Chirality; Liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

BANANA PHASES; BANANA SHAPED LIQUID CRYSTAL MATERIALS; CHIRALITY;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 30144439203     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190490509971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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