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Journal | LIQUID CRYSTALS |
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Date | Accepted/In press - 7 Jun 2015 |
Date | Published (current) - 23 Jun 2015 |
Issue number | 5-6 |
Volume | 42 |
Number of pages | 30 |
Pages (from-to) | 593-622 |
Original language | English |
In this article, we probe the formation of liquid crystal and soft crystal phases as a consequence of minimising the free volume of the system either through design engineering of molecular shape or through deformation of molecular architecture. Following this concept, a number of realisations were made, for example, smectic A phases with variable layer spacing, smectic C phases without layer shrinkage, lattices of free space and fibres in N<inf>TB</inf> phases.
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