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A low-molar-mass, monodispersive, bent-rod dimer exhibiting biaxial nematic and smectic A phases
Yelamaggad, Channabasaveshwar V.,Prasad, Subbarao Krishna,Nair, Geetha G.,Shashikala, Indudhara Swamy,Rao, Doddamane S. Shankar,Lobo, Chetan V.,Chandrasekharr, Sivaramakrishna
, p. 3429 - 3432 (2004)
A "peelable banana" is formed when a bent-core molecule is linked to a rodlike mesogen through a flexible aliphatic spacer. This is an appropriate description of this novel low-molar-mass organic system, which displays a transition from a biaxial nematic
