Liquid crystals of the twenty-first century – nematic phase of bent-core molecules

Liquid Crystals Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-82

  Jakli A ^a,b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bent core; Biaxiality; Chirality; Liquid crystals; Nanostructures; Nematic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938840115     PISSN: 21680396     EISSN: 21680418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21680396.2013.803701     Document Type: Article

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