Room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystals

S Kumar, SK Varshney, D Chauhan

Index: Kumar, Sandeep; Varshney, Sanjay Kumar; Chauhan, Diwakar Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2003 , vol. 396, p. 241 - 250

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Abstract

The use of discotic nematic liquid crystals instead of calamitic nematic liquid crystals to improve the viewing angle of a liquid crystal display device has recently been reported. Compared to the large number of calamitic molecules showing nematic phase at room temperature, the number of disk-shaped molecules showing subambient discotic nematic phase ND are rare. In this paper we present the design, synthesis, mesomorphic ...