Yelamaggad, Channabasaveshwar V. ; Krishna Prasad, Subbarao ; Nair, Geetha G. ; Shashikala, Indudhara Swamy ; Shankar Rao, Doddamane S. ; Lobo, Chetan V. ; Chandrasekhar, Sivaramakrishna (2004) A first low-molar-mass, monodispersive, bent-rod dimer exhibiting biaxial nematic and smectic A phases Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 43 (26). pp. 3429-3432. ISSN 1433-7851
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Abstract
A "peelable banana" is formed when a bent-core molecule is linked to a rodlike mesogen through a flexible aliphatic spacer. This is an appropriate description of this novel low-molar-mass organic system, which displays a transition from a biaxial nematic (Nb) phase to a biaxial smectic A phase. The illustration gives a schematic representation of the dimeric molecules in the Nb phase as well as the corresponding textural and conoscopic patterns obtained.
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| Keywords: | Biaxial Phases; Liquid Crystals; Mesogens; Phase Transitions |
| ID Code: | 7912 |
| Deposited On: | 25 Oct 2010 09:14 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2016 18:01 |
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