Crown–metal interactions in cholesteric liquid crystals
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 4,p. 303-304
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39900000303
Abstract
Alkali metal cations bound to steroidal crown ethers can change the helical pitch of cholesteric liquid crystals; the results indicate a potential to apply the liquid crystal as a new host–guest sensory system.Keywords
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