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High-Contrast and Fast Photorheological Switching of a Twist-Bend Nematic Liquid Crystal
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Reversible switching of lamellar liquid crystals into micellar solutions using CO2
Jianling Zhang1, Buxing Han, Wei Li
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 21, 2008
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