Local lamellar organisation of discotic mesogens carrying fluorinated tails

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 39, 2007, Pages 4196-4203

  Kouwer, Paul H J ^a,c   Picken, Stephen J ^b   Mehl, Georg H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; FLUORINATION; MONOMERS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FLUORINATED TAILS; LAMELLAR ORGANISATION; MESOGENS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34848899496     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: 13645501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b707880c     Document Type: Article

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