A columnar liquid crystal with permanent polar order
- 12 January 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
- Vol. 3 (5), 985-989
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc02662d
Abstract
The self-assembly of axial dipolar subphthalocyanine molecules in the presence of electric fields leads to uniaxially oriented columnar liquid crystalline materials that exhibit permanent polarization.Keywords
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