Self-assembly of bent-core liquid crystals: formation of a modulated smectic phase with p2gg lattice to escape anticlinic tilt.
A new silyl terminated bent-core mesogen was synthesized which shows a randomly tilted SmCR phase and a columnar phase with p2gg lattice as new modes of self-assembly in this class of compounds.
Amaranatha Reddy
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Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Chemistry Organic Chemistry, Kurt-Mothes Str. 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany.
Baumeister
Ute
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Tschierske
Carsten
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