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Tuning the frustration between SmA- and SmC-promoting elements in liquid crystals with 'de Vries-like' properties

Qingxiang Song1, Dorothee Nonnenmacher, Frank Giesselmann

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 19, 2011
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Keywords:
liquid crystal phase transitionsmolecular designSmA to SmC transitionstructure-property relationships

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