Bent-core liquid crystals forming two- and three-dimensional modulated structures

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3 1, 2003, Pages

  Szydlowska, J ^a   Mieczkowski, J ^a   Matraszek, J ^a   Bruce, D W ^b   Gorecka, E ^a,c   Pociecha, D ^a   Guillon, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c Inst Phys Chem Mat Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE HYPERCHEM; SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATION VECTOR;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749107281     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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