Thermotropic biaxial nematic phase in liquid crystalline organo-siloxane tetrapodes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Merkel, K ^a   Kocot, A ^a,b   Vij, J K ^a   Korlacki, R ^a   Mehl, G H ^c   Meyer, T ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONOSCOPY; MESOGENS; ORGANO-SILOXANE TETRAPODES; POLYDISPERSITY;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; INFRARED RADIATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TEXTURES;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

SILOXANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONS; MAGNETICS; PHYSICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILOXANES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 42749104958     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.237801     Document Type: Article

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