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Małgorzata Bakiera1, Jakub Karcz1, Damian Pociecha2

  • 1Faculty of Advanced Technology and Chemistry, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 5, 2026
PubMed

Keywords:
ferroelectric nematicheliconical nematicliquid crystalsmesogenic dimers

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