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Synfacts 2008(12): 1274-1274  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1087304
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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BINOL-Based Columnar Fluorescent Liquid Crystals

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jose M. Lobez
C.-W. Yang, T.-H. Hsia, C.-C. Chen, C.-K. Lai, R.-S. Liu*
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu and National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan
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20 November 2008 (online)

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Significance

Liquid crystalline materials (LC) with chiral columnar phases have several applications because of their ferroelectricity and second-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities. The first chiral LC with a BINOL core is presented.