Polymeric materials presenting liquid crystalline domains are attracting increasing attention from academia and industry due to their unique properties, particularly for optical applications and as components of high-strength ...

Thin freely suspended films of a mixture of an achiral side-chain liquid crystal polymer and its monomer have been studied with depolarized reflected light microscopy. We observe that regions with an odd number of bilayers ...

X-ray structure determination and pyroelectric measurements have been carried out on mesogenic mixtures composed of an achiral side-chain polymer and its monomer. The mixtures show antiferroelectric polarization hysteresis ...

We report the synthesis, characterization and properties of a series of coordination polymers (CP) in which paddle-wheel diruthenium (II,II) tetracarboxylate units are linked by tetrazine as axial ligand, a combination ...

To clarify the mechanism involved in the appearance of antiferroelectric properties in mixtures of polymers containing achiral mesogenic side chains and their monomers, X-ray investigation was carried out in pyroelectrically ...

X-ray structure determination and pyroelectric and piezoelectric measurements have been carried out on mesogenic mixtures composed of achiral side chain polymers and their monomers. Certain mixtures show antiferroelectric ...