Elastic properties of bimesogenic liquid crystals

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 681-688

  Balachandran, R ^a   Panov, V P ^a   Vij, J K ^a,d   Kocot, A ^a,b   Tamba, M G ^c   Kohlmeier, A ^c   Mehl, G H ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

bimesogens; dielectric permittivity; dimers; elastic constants; Nx phase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878773868     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.765973     Document Type: Article

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