2002•Chemical CommunicationsRequires access
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
Gert Dantlgraber, Siegmar Diele, Carsten Tschierske
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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.