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Tuning the frustration between SmA- and SmC-promoting elements in liquid crystals with 'de Vries-like' properties
Song, Qingxiang,Nonnenmacher, Dorothee,Giesselmann, Frank,Lemieux, Robert P.
, p. 4781 - 4783 (2011/06/22)
Smectic liquid crystals with 'de Vries-like' properties are characterized by a maximum layer contraction of ≤1% upon transition from the non-tilted SmA phase to the tilted SmC phase. We show herein that one can systematically increase the 'de Vries-like'
