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A new series of chiral liquid crystals having cyano group in the mesogenic core has been synthesized and characterized. The synthesized compounds exhibit a broad ferroelectric chiral smectic C mesophase with a high spontaneous polarization.
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The work was supported by Grants No. 202/93/155 and No. 106/93/0839 from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and by Grant No. 19062 from the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
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Kašpar, M., Sverenyák, H., Hamplová, V. et al. New liquid crystalline material with a broad temperature range ferroelectric phase. Czech J Phys 44, 717–720 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01694842
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01694842