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Indudhara Swamy Shashikala
Researcher at Liquid Crystal Institute
Publications - 12
Citations - 437
Indudhara Swamy Shashikala is an academic researcher from Liquid Crystal Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liquid crystal & Mesogen. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 12 publications receiving 428 citations.
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A Low‐Molar‐Mass, Monodispersive, Bent‐Rod Dimer Exhibiting Biaxial Nematic and Smectic A Phases
Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad,Subbarao Krishna Prasad,Geetha G. Nair,Indudhara Swamy Shashikala,Doddamane S. Shankar Rao,Chetan V. Lobo,S. Chandrasekhar +6 more
TL;DR: A "peelable banana" is formed when a bent-core molecule is linked to a rodlike mesogen through a flexible aliphatic spacer in this novel low-molar-mass organic system, which displays a transition from a biaxial nematic (N b ) phase to a bIAxial smectic A phase.
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Blue Phase, Smectic Fluids, and Unprecedented Sequences in Liquid Crystal Dimers
Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad,Indudhara Swamy Shashikala,Guangxun Liao,Doddamane S. Shankar Rao,Subbarao Krishna Prasad,Quan Li,Antal Jakli +6 more
TL;DR: Several optically pure liquid crystal dimers with strong molecular chirality, synthesized by covalently linking an achiral bent-core unit with a bulky pro-mesogenic rodlike chiral entity through a flexible spacer, display amorphous blue phase, smectic phases, and new sequences.
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Liquid crystal dimers possessing chiral rod‐like anisometric segments: synthesis, characterization and electro‐optic behaviour
Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad,Indudhara Swamy Shashikala,Uma S. Hiremath,Doddamane S. Shankar Rao,Subbarao Krishna Prasad +4 more
TL;DR: Several new optically active liquid crystal dimers comprising promesogenic cholesterol and a chiral diphenylacetylene (tolane) segment, covalently linked in an end-to-end fashion through a flexible spacer, have been synthesized and investigated for their mesomorphic behaviour with the aid of optical, calorimetric and X-ray diffraction studies as mentioned in this paper.
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Liquid Crystal Trimers Composed of Banana-Shaped and Rodlike Anisometric Segments : Synthesis and Characterization
TL;DR: In this article, mesomorphic linear trimers consisting of bent-core and rod-like anisotropic segments are reported. But the mesomorphic trimers are not shown to have a metastable phase.
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The biaxial smectic (SmAb) phase in nonsymmetric liquid crystal dimers comprising two rodlike anisometric segments: an unusual behavior
Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad,Indudhara Swamy Shashikala,Doddamane S. Shankar Rao,Geetha G. Nair,Subbarao Krishna Prasad +4 more
TL;DR: The first nonsymmetric liquid crystal dimers, possessing salicylaldimine and cyanobiphenyl rodlike anisometric segments, exhibiting the biaxial smectic A (McMillan) phase unequivocally evidenced by microscopic, conoscopic, calorimetric and X-ray diffraction studies is reported in this article.