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Chemical Communications

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Journal of Materials Chemistry

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Richard J. Bushby, N. Boden, C.A. Kilner, +4

Journal of Materials Chemistry

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Journal of the American Chemical Society

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Synthesis and characterisation of side chain liquid crystal copolymers containing sulfonic acid groups

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Polymer

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Orientation of Microphase-Segregated Cylinders in Liquid Crystalline Diblock Copolymer by Magnetic Field

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Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

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