Amorphous chiral smectic A phase of side chain copolymers
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- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 18 (6) , 911-914
Abstract
The chiral structure of the anomalous smectic phase recently observed in chiral copolymers has been studied by optical methods. The phase is amorphous, but shows a short range order, as a combination of smectic A and cholesteric structures. This phase is presumed to possess locally the TGBA structure.Keywords
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