DOI: 10.1039/A807547F
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Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1998, 2573-2574
A novel class of non-chiral banana-shaped liquid crystals with ferroelectric properties
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Dong Shen, Carsten Tschierske, Siegmar Diele and Ina Wirt
Abstract
The first banana-shaped molecules without Schiff-base units, with broad regions of a ferroelectric switchable liquid crystalline phase and low melting points, have been obtained.
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