On the origin of the "giant" electroclinic effect in a "De Vries"-type Ferroelectric liquid crystal material for chirality sensing applications

ChemPhysChem

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 890-892

  Kapernaum, Nadia ^a   Walba, David M ^b   Korblova, Eva ^b   Zhu, Chenhui ^b   Jones, Chris ^b   Shen, Yongqian ^b   Clark, Noel A ^b   Giesselmann, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality; Chirality sensing; Electroclinic effect; Liquid crystals; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

DE VRIES; ELECTROCLINIC EFFECT; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; SENSING APPLICATIONS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 64749099014     PISSN: 14394235     EISSN: 14397641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200900065     Document Type: Article

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