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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
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Induction of liquid crystallinity by self-assembled molecular boxes
Alessio Piermattei1, Marcel Giesbers, Antonius T M Marcelis
1Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry & Technology, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 18, 2006
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