Systematic variation of length ratio and the formation of smectic A and smectic C phases

ChemPhysChem

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2099-2107

  Kapernaum, Nadia ^a   Hartley, C Scott ^b   Roberts, Jeffrey C ^b   Schoerg, Florian ^a   Krueerke, Daniel ^a   Lemieux, Robert P ^b   Giesselmann, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bidispersity; Liquid crystals; Phase diagrams; Smectic phases; Structure and dynamics

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

BIDISPERSITY; ELECTRO-OPTIC MEASUREMENTS; NEIGHBORING MOLECULES; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS; SMECTIC LAYER STRUCTURE; SMECTIC PHASIS; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77954810983     PISSN: 14394235     EISSN: 14397641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201000243     Document Type: Article

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