Abstract

CHEMISTRY In smectic-phase liquid crystals, rodlike molecules tend to pack parallel to one another in a layered structure. When a semifluorinated chain is attached near the middle of a rodlike aromatic molecule with polar endgroups, a smectic phase can still form, with the molecules lying flat in

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