The carbosilane unit as a stable building block for liquid crystal design: a new class of ferroelectric switching banana-shaped mesogens
Christina Keith,R. Amaranatha Reddy,Harald Hahn,Heinrich Lang,Carsten Tschierske
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 07/27/2004 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/B407890J
Abstract
New banana shaped liquid crystals with a carbosilane unit at one end were synthesised and depending on the number of Si-atoms either antiferroelectric (AF) or ferroelectric (FE) switching polar smectic C phases have been obtained.
