Chem. Commun., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45207G, Communication
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45207G, Communication
Robert P Lemieux, Frank Giesselmann, Qingxiang Song, Andreas Bogner
Smectic liquid crystals with 'de Vries-like' properties are characterized by a maximum layer contraction of [less-than-or-equal] 1% upon transition from the orthogonal SmA phase to the tilted SmC phase. We show that binary mixtures of 'de Vries-like' and conventional SmC mesogens with a molecular length ratio of 1.34 undergo a SmA-SmC phase transition with a maximum layer contraction ranging from 1.0 to 1.9% depending on the mixture composition.
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Smectic liquid crystals with 'de Vries-like' properties are characterized by a maximum layer contraction of [less-than-or-equal] 1% upon transition from the orthogonal SmA phase to the tilted SmC phase. We show that binary mixtures of 'de Vries-like' and conventional SmC mesogens with a molecular length ratio of 1.34 undergo a SmA-SmC phase transition with a maximum layer contraction ranging from 1.0 to 1.9% depending on the mixture composition.
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