Spontaneous helix formation in smectic liquid crystals comprising achiral molecules
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Vol. 7 (8) , 1307-1309
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a702026k
Abstract
Spontaneous formation of two types of helical structure is observed in two smectic phases consisting of banana-shaped achiral molecules for the first time. Local optical resolution occurs to form spatially resolved helices of both handednesses.Keywords
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