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Shogo Yamane1, Yoshimitsu Sagara, Takashi Kato
1Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 16, 2013
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The introduction of bulky tert-butyl substituents into smectic liquid-crystalline 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene derivatives influences excimer structures and luminescence properties.
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