Design of liquid crystals with "de Vries-like" properties: Frustration between SmA- and SmC-promoting elements

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 364-370

  Roberts, Jeffrey C ^a   Kapernaum, Nadia ^b   Song, Qingxiang ^a   Nonnenmacher, Dorothee ^b   Ayub, Khurshid ^a   Giesselmann, Frank ^b   Lemieux, Robert P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOLOGOUS SERIES; LIQUID CRYSTAL MATERIALS; MESOGENS; NEGATIVE THERMAL EXPANSION; NEW DESIGN; NEW MATERIAL; OPTICAL TILT; ORGANOSILOXANES; R VALUE; REDUCTION FACTOR; SIDE-CHAIN; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SMECTIC LAYERS; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TRISILOXANE;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATERIALS; THERMAL EXPANSION; X RAY SCATTERING;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

2 PHENYLPYRIMIDINE; 5 [4 [11 (1,1,1,3,3,5,5 HEPTAMETHYLTRISILOXANYL) UNDECYLOXY]PHENYL] 2 (1 ALKYLOXY)PYRIMIDINE; CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; MESOGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SILOXANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHASE TRANSITION; PREDICTION; REDUCTION; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 74849111136     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9087727     Document Type: Article

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