Liquid-crystalline gels exhibiting electrooptical light scattering properties: fibrous polymerized network of a lysine-based gelator having acrylate moieties
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عنوان ژورنال: Polymer Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0032-3896,1349-0540
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2012.21