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Chiral Smectic Ferroelectric and Anticlinic Liquid Crystals
The chiral smectic liquid crystals are not only useful for the potential applications but also are a rich source to study and understand the science...
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Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
In the year 1996, an unusual ferroelectric behavior of liquid crystals composed of achiral bent-core (or banana-shaped) molecules was reported. Since...
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Liquid Crystals: General Introduction
We begin with the introduction of the subject of liquid crystals. It has come up of age and now is considered as a subject of a well-established and...
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Reentrant Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals
Phenomenon of reentrancy of a low symmetry (high order) phase in-between two high symmetry (low order) phases as the transition thermodynamic...
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Wide thermal range, exclusive occurrence of technically significant chiral nematic phase: synthesis and mesomorphism of cholesterol-based non-symmetric dimers
Fifteen new non-symmetric chiral dimers belonging to three different series have been synthesized and evaluated for their mesomorphic properties....
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Liquid Crystalline Materials
During the development of liquid crystals there was an ongoing discussion if ferroelectricity could exist in LC materials. Until then,...
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Investigations on photo and electrically switchable asymmetric bent-core liquid crystals
New series of bent-core liquid crystals ( 8a – 8d ) synthesized and their photo and electrical switching properties were investigated. The homologous...
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Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals from Achiral Molecules And A Liquid Conglomerate
Until recently, it was an empirical fact that creation of a chiral liquid crystal phase required enantiomerically enriched molecules. In addition, to...