Ferroelectric and Structured Phases from Polar Tapered Mesogens
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INTRODUCTION The currently known ferroelectric liquid crystals have relatively complex tilted smectic phases constituted by chiral [1] or by banana-shaped molecules [2]. Although numerous novel materials of this type continue to appear [3], the development of ferroelectric nematic phases, i.e. of truly fluid phases with an overall polar order, would be a goal of considerable importance [4, 5]. From a theoretical point of view the
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تاریخ انتشار 2004