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Re-entrant isotropic behaviour of a pure double-swallow-tailed compound

I. Letko, G. Pelzl, Siegmar Diele

Liquid Crystals · 1995 · 29 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Abstract Two new six-ring double-swallow-tailed mesogens were prepared. The phase behaviours of these compounds were studied by optical methods and by calorimetry. One of them shows the very unusual phase sequence crystalline-smectic C-cubic-isotropic-nematic-isotropic.

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