The biaxial smectic (SmAb) phase in nonsymmetric liquid crystal dimers comprising two rodlike anisometric segments: An unusual behavior

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 42, 2006, Pages 4099-4102

  Yelamaggad, Channabasaveshwar V ^a   Shashikala, Indudhara Swamy ^a   Shankar Rao, Doddamane S ^a   Nair, Geetha G ^a   Krishna Prasad, Subbarao ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; DIMERS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANISOMETRIC SEGMENTS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DIMERS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33750380426     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: 13645501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b612132b     Document Type: Article

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