title: The carbosilane unit as a stable building block for liquid crystal design: a new class of ferroelectric switching banana-shaped mesogens.
abstract: New banana shaped liquid crystals with a carbosilane unit at one end were synthesised and depending on the number of Si-atoms either antiferroelectric (AF) or ferroelectric (FE) switching 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: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Keith
authors.forename: R Amaranatha
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hahn
authors.forename: Heinrich
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tschierske
mesh_terms: D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D003461:Crystallography; D004563:Electrochemistry; D005296:Ferrous Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D008280:Magnetics; D044367:Phase Transition; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D012821:Silanes / Q000737:chemistry*; D012833:Siloxanes / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D005296:Ferrous Compounds; D011108:Polymers; D012821:Silanes; D012833:Siloxanes; C504072:carbosilane; C422409:liquid crystal polymer