Design, synthesis, and characterisation of symmetrical bent-core liquid crystalline dimers with diacetylene spacer

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1263-1273

  Zhang, Lan Ying ^a,b   Zhang, Qi Kai ^b   Zhang, Yu Dong ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bent core liquid crystal; diacetylene spacer; monotropic phase behaviour; symmetrical liquid crystalline dimers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881664192     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.805829     Document Type: Article

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