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Chemical Communications

The first example of a liquid crystalline side-chain polymer with bent-core mesogenic units: ferroelectric switching and spontaneous achiral symmetry breaking in an achiral polymer

Christina Keith,a   R. Amaranatha Reddya  and  Carsten Tschierske*a  

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a Institute of Organic Chemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes Str. 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany
E-mail: carsten.tschierske@chemie.uni-halle.de
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Abstract

A dimethylsiloxane diluted polysiloxane side chain co-polymer with non-chiral banana-shaped mesogenic units shows an optically isotropic ferroelectric switching polar smectic C phase (SmCPF) consisting of a conglomerate of homogeneously chiral domains with opposite handedness.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B413643H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Sep 2004
Accepted
18 Nov 2004
First published
05 Jan 2005

Chem. Commun., 2005, 871-873

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The first example of a liquid crystalline side-chain polymer with bent-core mesogenic units: ferroelectric switching and spontaneous achiral symmetry breaking in an achiral polymer

C. Keith, R. A. Reddy and C. Tschierske, Chem. Commun., 2005, 871 DOI: 10.1039/B413643H

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