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Biaxial smectic A liquid crystal in a pure compound
B K Sadashiva1, R A Reddy, R Pratibha
1Raman Research Institute, C.V. Raman Avenue, Bangalore 560 080, India. sadashiv@rri.res.in
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 21, 2002
Abstract:
The synthesis and characterisation is reported of a low molecular weight organic compound to exhibit the biaxial smectic A (SmAb) phase, which shows a transition from the partial bilayer uniaxial SmAd phase to the SmAdb phase as the temperature is lowered.