Blue phase, smectic fluids, and unprecedented sequences in liquid crystal dimers

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 6100-6102

  Yelamaggad, Channabasaveshwar V ^a   Shashikala, Indudhara Swamy ^a   Liao, Guangxun ^b   Shankar Rao, Doddamane S ^a   Prasad, Subbarao Krishna ^a   Li, Quan ^b   Jakli, Antal ^b  

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

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL STRUCTURES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DIMERS; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; TWIST GRAIN BOUNDARY (TGB);

ANISOTROPY; CHOLESTEROL; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

DIMERS;

EID: 33846395705     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm061636d     Document Type: Article

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