An unusual type of polymorphism in a liquid crystal

Polymorphism is a property that allows a material to exist in two or more crystal structures. Here the authors observe thermal-induced structural polymorphism in a bent-core liquid crystal compound and show that by choosing the cooling rate, different structures with distinct structural colours are...

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Main Authors: Lin Li, Mirosław Salamończyk, Sasan Shadpour, Chenhui Zhu, Antal Jákli, Torsten Hegmann
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a795134411a2411dba21b22e7543f504
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