Relationships between molecular structure and physical properties in bent-core mesogens

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1847, 2006, Pages 2657-2679

  Weissflog, Wolfgang ^a   Shreenivasa Murthy, H N ^a   Diele, Siegmar ^a   Pelzl, Gerhard ^a   Percec, V ^b,e   Li, M H ^c   Matharu, A S ^d  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Bent core mesogens; Liquid crystals; Polar structures; Superstructural chirality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750504859     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1845     Document Type: Article

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