Spontaneous chiral ordering in the nematic phase of an achiral banana-shaped compound
Abstract
A new achiral banana-shaped mesogen is presented which exhibits a nematic phase and an isotropic mesomorphic phase with spontaneous chiral ordering.
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a Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Mühlpforte 1, Germany
A new achiral banana-shaped mesogen is presented which exhibits a nematic phase and an isotropic mesomorphic phase with spontaneous chiral ordering.
G. Pelzl, A. Eremin, S. Diele, H. Kresse and W. Weissflog, J. Mater. Chem., 2002, 12, 2591 DOI: 10.1039/B206236D
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