Unusual odd-even effects depending on the monomer chain length in nematic liquid crystals made of rod-like dimers

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Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Kundu, Brindaban ^a   Kumar Pal, Santanu ^a,b   Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Pratibha, R ^a   Madhusudana, N V ^a  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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EID: 78651468263     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: 12864854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/85/36002     Document Type: Article

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