Phase biaxiality in nematic liquid crystals experimental evidence for phase biaxiality in various thermotropic liquid crystalline systems

Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 141-170

  Severing, Kirsten ^a   Saalwächter, Kay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5354-1_5     Document Type: Chapter

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