A visual representation for the shapes of flexible mesogenic molecules
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 3 (2) , 185-194
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678298808086365
Abstract
The shapes of most mesogenic molecules vary as a result of internal motions whose magnitude changes discontinuously at the transition to the isotropic phase. Here we propose a visual representation for such flexible molecules which shows their average chemical structure together with the extent of the fluctuations away from this.Keywords
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