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Molecular theory of nematic liquid crystals
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This article is published in ChemInform.The article was published on 1982-10-01. It has received 108 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Liquid crystal & Molecular orbital theory.read more
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Ordered phases of filamentous viruses
Zvonimir Dogic,Seth Fraden +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase behavior of colloidal suspensions of rod-like viruses and treat the simplest case where the rods are the sole colloidal component and also the more complex phase behavior that arises in mixtures of binary rods and mixtures with spherical colloids, or with polymers.
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Plenary Lecture. One hundred years of liquid-crystal chemistry: Thermotropic liquid crystals with conventional and unconventional molecular structure
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Landau theory of the nematic-isotropic phase transition
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100 Years Liquid Crystal Chemistry
TL;DR: A short review of the state of the liquid crystal chemistry, divided in conventional (rod-like) and non-conventional (deviating more or less from the rod-like shape) molecular species is given in this article.
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Ferroelectric liquid crystals
Bak Gun Dipl Chem Yong,Barth Petra,Demus Dietrich,Joachimi Detlev,Barbara Dipl Chem Kampa,Saskia Kohler,K. Mohr,Reinhard Paschke,Gerhard Pelzl,Ulrich Dipl Chem Rosenfeld,Wolfgang Schäfer,Klaus-Dieter Dipl Chem Scherf,Carsten Tschirske,Wolfgang Weissflog,Horst Zaschke +14 more
TL;DR: Fast switching displays with memory properties are provided, which can display digits, symbols, and images, and which contain as chemically and thermally stable ferroelectric liquid crystalline substances.