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Spontaneous chiral ordering in the nematic phase of an achiral banana-shaped compound

G. Pelzl, Alexey Eremin, Siegmar Diele, H. Kresse

Journal of Materials Chemistry · 2002 · 159 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

A new achiral banana-shaped mesogen is presented which exhibits a nematic phase and an isotropic mesomorphic phase with spontaneous chiral ordering.

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