Azo-containing asymmetric bent-core liquid crystals with modulated smectic phases
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Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Uni Belgrade, Serbia. E-mail: [email protected] Institute for Solid State Physics and Opti Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Te Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Universi USA Department of Physics, Kent State Universit USA † Electronic supplementary information spectral data for all new compounds, d DSC thermographs. See DOI: 10.1039/c5ra Cite this: RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 64886
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