title: The first liquid crystalline dimers consisting of two banana-shaped mesogenic units: a new way for switching between ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity with bent-core molecules.
abstract: Depending on the number of dimethylsiloxane units in the spacer connecting two banana-shaped molecules either ferroelectric or antiferroelectric switchable polar smectic C phases have been obtained.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Organic Chemistry, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes Str. 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany.
authors.forename: Gert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dantlgraber
authors.forename: Siegmar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Diele
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tschierske