- Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells, and fibers
Martin Urbanski, Catherine G. Reyes, JungHyun Noh, Anshul Sharma, Yong Gang, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, Jan P.F. Lagerwall
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa5706 (2017) - Non-electronic gas sensors from electrospun mats of liquid crystal core fibers for detecting volatile organic compounds at room temperature
Catherine Reyes, Anshul Sharma and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
Liquid Crystals (30th anniversary issue), DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1212287 (2016) - Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Phase Diagrams and Detection of Kinetic Arrest in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions
Camila Honorato-Rios, Anja Kuhnold, Johanna Bruckner, Rick Dannert, Tanja Schilling and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
Frontiers in Materials (special research topic “Anisotropy in Deformable Biomaterials”), 3, 21, DOI: 10.3389/fmats.2016.00021 (2016) - Macroscopic control of helix orientation in films dried from cholesteric liquid crystalline cellulose nanocrystal suspensions
Ji Hyun Park, JungHyun Noh, Christina Schütz, German Salazar-Alvarez, Giusy Scalia, Lennart Bergström, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
ChemPhysChem, 15, 7, p. 1477 (2014), part of a special issue on ‘physical properties and behavior of liquid crystals’. - Liquid crystal-functionalization of electrospun polymer fibers (Perspective article)
Dae Kyom Kim, Minsik Hwang and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
J. Polym. Sci. B Polym. Phys. 51, 11, pp. 855-867 (2013) Note: download is free for everyone, requiring no subscription to the journal - Tuning the defect configurations in nematic and smectic liquid crystalline shells
Hsin-Ling Liang, JungHyun Noh, Rudolf Zentel, Per Rudquist and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
Philos. Trans. A 371, 1988, 20120258 (2013) - Morphology and Core Continuity of Liquid-Crystal-Functionalized, Coaxially Electrospun Fiber Mats Tuned via the Polymer Sheath Solution
Giusy Scalia, Eva Enz, Oronzo Calò, Dae Kyom. Kim, Minsik Hwang, Jong Hwan Lee, and Jan P.F. Lagerwall
Macromol. Mater. Eng. 298, 5, pp. 583.589 (2013) - A new era for liquid crystal research: applications of liquid crystals in soft matter nano-, bio- and microtechnology (Review article)
Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Giusy Scalia
Curr. Appl. Phys., 12, 6, pp. 1387-1412 (2012) Note: download is free for everyone; no subscription required. - Coaxial electrospinning of liquid crystal-containing poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) microfibers
Eva Enz, Ute Baumeister, Jan Lagerwall
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 5, 58, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.58 (2009), themed issue on ‘Progress in Liquid crystal Chemistry’.
Note: download is free for everyone, requiring no subscription to the journal - Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals (Review article)
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Giusy Scalia
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J. Mater. Chem. 18, 25, pp. 2890-2898 (2008), special issue on ‘Liquid crystals beyond display applications’.
- Current topics in smectic liquid crystal research (Review article)
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann
ChemPhysChem, 7, 1, pp. 20-45 (2006) - Complex Chirality at the Nanoscale
Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Frank Giesselmann
ChemPhysChem, 11, 5, pp. 975-977 (2010)
- Taming Liquid Crystal Self-Assembly: The Multifaceted Response of Nematic and Smectic Shells to Polymerization
J. Noh, B. Henx, J.P.F. Lagerwall
Adv., Mater, DOI 10.1002/adma.201603158 (2016) - Correlation between structural properties and iridescent colors of cellulose nanocrystalline films
M. Ličen, B. Majaron, J. Noh, C. Schütz, L. Bergström, J. Lagerwall, I. Drevenšek-Olenik
Cellulose, DOI 10.1007/s10570-016-1066-z (2016) - Enhancing Self-Assembly in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions Using High-Permittivity Solvents
Johanna Bruckner, Anja Kuhnhold, Camila Honorato-Rios, Tanja Schilling and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02647 (2016) - High-fidelity spherical cholesteric liquid crystal Bragg reflectors generating unclonable patterns for secure authentication
Yong Geng, JungHyun Noh, Irena Drevensek-Olenik, Romano Rupp, Gabriele Lenzini and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
Sci. Rep., 6, Article number: 26840, DOI: 10.1038/srep26840 (2016)
The article has been featured in multiple popular science web sites, see http://www.nature.com/articles/srep26840/metrics - Nanoparticles dispersed in liquid crystals: Impact on conductivity, low-frequency relaxation and electro-optical performance
Martin Urbanski and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
J. Mater. Chem. C, 4, 16, pp. 3485-3491 (2016) - Influence of interface stabilisers and surrounding aqueous phases on nematic liquid crystal shells
JungHyun Noh, Kevin Reguengo da Sousa and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
Soft Matter, 12, 2, pp. 367 - 372 (2016) - Multifunctional responsive fibers produced by dual liquid crystal core electrospinning
YooMee Kye, Changsoon Kim and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
J. Mater. Chem. C, 3, 8979-8985 (2015) - Ultra-long ordered nanowires from the concerted self-assembly of discotic liquid crystal and solvent molecules
Ji Hyun Park , Kyung Ho Kim , Yung Woo Park , Jan P. F. Lagerwall , and Giusy Scalia
Langmuir, 31, 34, 9432–9440 (2015) - Rod Packing in Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersions Studied by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Laser Diffraction
Christina Schütz, Michael Agthe, Andreas B. Fall, Korneliya Gordeyeva, Valentina Guccini, Michaela Salajková,
Tomás S. Plivelic, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, German Salazar-Alvarez, and Lennart Bergström
Langmuir, 31, 23, 6507–6513 (2015) - Influence of Wetting on Morphology and Core Content in Electrospun Core–Sheath Fibers
Dae Kyom Kim and Jan Lagerwall
ACS Appl. Mater. Interf., 6, 18, 16441−16447 (2014) - * Cellulose nanocrystal-based materials: from liquid crystal self- assembly and glass formation to multifunctional thin films
Jan Lagerwall, Christina Schütz, Michaela Salajkova, JungHyun Noh, Ji Hyun Park, Giusy Scalia and Lennart Bergström
NPG Asia Materials, 6, e80, doi:10.1038/am.2013.69 (2014), open access - * Tunable Multicolored Patterns From Photonic Cross Communication Between Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets
JungHyun Noh, Hsin-Ling Liang, Irena Drevensek-Olenik and Jan Lagerwall
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, 5, p. 806 (2014) - One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles
Featured in the May 2013 issue of Soft Matter World
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Eva-Kristina Fleischmann, Hsin-Ling Liang, Nadia Kapernaum, Frank Giesselmann, Jan P.F. Lagerwall, and Rudolf Zentel
Nat. Commun., 8, (2012), DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2193 - Utilizing the Krafft phenomenon for achieving ideal micelle-free surfactant-stabilized nanoparticle suspensions
Sarah Dölle, Bob-Dan Lechner, Ji Hyun Park, Stefan Schymura, Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Giusy Scalia
Angewandte Chemie - Int. Ed., 51, pp. 3254-3257 (2012) - Towards tunable defect arrangements in smectic liquid crystal shells utilizing the nematic-smectic transition in hybrid-aligned geometries
Hsin-Ling Liang, Rudolf Zentel, Per Rudquist and Jan Lagerwall
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Soft Matter, 8, 20, pp. 5443 - 5450 (2012) - Effects of chain branching and chirality on liquid crystalline phases of bent-core molecules:
blue phases, de Vries transitions and switching of diastereomeric states
Hale Ocak, Belkiz Bilgin-Eran, Marko Prehm, Stefan Schymura, Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Carsten Tschierske
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Soft Matter, 7, 18, pp. 8266 - 8280 (2011) - Liquid Crystals in Novel Geometries prepared by Microfluidics and Electrospinning
Hsin-Ling Liang, Eva Enz, Giusy Scalia and Jan Lagerwall
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Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 549, pp. 69-77 (2011) - * Nematic-smectic transition under confinement in liquid crystalline colloidal shells
Featured in the December 2011 issue of Soft Matter World
Hsin-Ling Liang, Stefan Schymura, Per Rudquist and Jan Lagerwall
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Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 24, 247801 (2011) - Filament formation in carbon nanotube-doped lyotropic liquid crystals
Stefan Schymura, Sarah Dölle, Jun Yamamoto and Jan Lagerwall
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Soft Matter, 7, 6, 2663 - 2667 (2011) - Tailor-designed polyphilic promotors for stabilizing dispersions of carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals
Martin Kühnast, Carsten Tschierske and Jan Lagerwall
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Chem. Commun., 46, pp. 6989-6991 (2010) - Towards Efficient Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals
Stefan Schymura, Martin Kühnast, Vanessa Lutz, Stefan Jagiella, Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska, Siegmar Roth, Frank Giesselmann, Carsten Tschierske, Giusy Scalia, and Jan Lagerwall
Adv. Funct. Mater., 20, 19, pp. 3350–3357 (2010) - Electrospun microfibres with temperature sensitive iridescence from encapsulated cholesteric liquid crystal
Highlighted on the journal cover page
Eva Enz and Jan Lagerwall
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J. Mater. Chem., 20, 33, pp. 6866-6872 (2010) - Self-assembled ordered structures in thin films of HAT5 discotic liquid crystal
P. Morales, J. Lagerwall, P. Vacca, S. Laschat, and G. Scalia,
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 6, 51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.51 (2010) Note: download is free for everyone, requiring no subscription to the journal - Macroscopic-scale carbon nanotube alignment via self-assembly in lyotropic liquid crystals
S. Schymura, E. Enz, S. Roth, G. Scalia, J.P.F. Lagerwall
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Synth. Met., 159, 21-22, pp. 2177-2179 (2009) - Electrolyte effects on the stability of nematic and lamellar lyotropic liquid crystal phases
– colligative and ion-specific aspects
Ute Dawin, Jan P.F. Lagerwall and Frank Giesselmann
J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 33, pp. 11414-11420 (2009) - On the balance between syn- and anticlinicity in smectic phases formed by achiral hockey-stick mesogens with and without chiral dopants
E. Enz, S. Findeisen-Tandel, R. Dabrowski, F. Giesselmann, W. Weissflog, U. Baumeister, and J. Lagerwall,
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J. Mater. Chem., 19, 19, pp. 2950-2957 (2009) - Coaxial electrospinning of microfibres with liquid crystal in the core
J.P.F. Lagerwall, J.T. McCann, E. Formo, G. Scalia, and Y. Xia
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Chem. Commun., 42, pp. 5420-5422 (2008) - Spontaneous macroscopic carbon nanotube alignment via colloidal suspension in
hexagonal columnar lyotropic liquid crystals
G. Scalia, C. von Bühler, C. Hägele, S. Roth, F. Giesselmann, and J.P.F. Lagerwall
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Soft Matter, 4, 3, pp. 570-576 (2008) - Order-disorder molecular model of the smectic A – smectic C phase transition in materials with conventional and anomalously weak layer contraction
M. V. Gorkunov, M. A. Osipov, J.P.F. Lagerwall and F. Giesselmann
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Phys. Rev. E, 76, 5, p. 051706 (2007) - Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals as versatile functional materials
G. Scalia, J.P.F. Lagerwall, S. Schymura, M. Haluska, F. Giesselmann, and S. Roth
Phys. Status Solidi B, 244, 11, pp. 4212-4217 (2007) - Molecular model for de Vries type smectic-A–smectic-C phase transition in liquid crystals
M. V. Gorkunov, F. Giesselman, J. P. F. Lagerwall, T. J. Sluckin and M. A. Osipov
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Phys. Rev. E, 75, 060701(R) (2007) - Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals with Induced Intermediate Polar Phases and the Effects of Doping with Carbon Nanotubes
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Roman Dabrowski, Giusy Scalia
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J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 353, 47-51, pp. 4411-4417 (2007) - Partitioning and reorientational dynamics of phenylalcohols in SDS lyotropic liquid crystalline mesophases: an ALC-µSR study
Aleksandra Martyniak, Herbert Dilger, Iain McKenzie, Robert Scheuermann, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Emil Roduner
Colloid Surf. A, 309, 1-3, pp. 224-230 (2007) - Nanotube alignment using lyotropic liquid crystals
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Giusy Scalia, Miroslav Haluska, Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska,
Siegmar Roth, Frank Giesselmann
Adv. Mater. 19, 3, pp. 359-364 (2007) - Simultaneous alignment and dispersion of carbon nanotubes with lyotropic liquid crystals
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Giusy Scalia, Miroslav Haluska, Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska,
Frank Giesselmann, Siegmar Roth
Phys. Status Solidi B, 246, 13. pp. 3046-3049 (2006) - Effect of phenyl rings in liquid crystal molecules on SWCNTs studied by Raman spectroscopy
Giusy Scalia, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Miroslav Haluska, Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska,
Frank Giesselmann, Siegmar Roth
Phys. Status Solidi B, 246, 13. pp. 3238-3241 (2006) - On the change in helix handedness at transitions between the Sm-C* and Sm-Ca* phases in chiral smectic liquid crystals
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Mikhail A. Osipov
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Liq. Cryst. 33, 6. pp. 625-633 (2006) - The peculiar optic, dielectric and x-ray diffraction properties of a fluorinated de Vries asymmetric-diffuse-cone-model ferroelectric liquid crystal
This paper was the second most downloaded article in the 2006 volume of the journal ‘Liquid Crystals’, as of 18.5.2007.
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, David Coleman, Eva Körblova, Chris Jones, Renfan Shao, José M. Otón, David M. Walba, Noel A. Clark, Frank Giesselmann
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Liq. Cryst. 33, 1, pp. 17-24 (2006) - Frustration between syn- and anticlinicity in mixtures of chiral and non-chiral tilted smectic-C-type liquid crystals
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Gerd Heppke, Frank Giesselmann
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Eur. Phys. J. E 18, 1, pp. 113-121 (2005) - Electrolyte effects on the nematic-isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals
Prabir K. Mukherjee, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann
Liq. Cryst. 32, 10, pp. 1301-1306 (2005) - Chiral smectic C subphases induced by mixing a bistereogenic antiferroelectric liquid crystal with a non-chiral liquid crystal
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Sebastian Rauch, Gerd Heppke, Per Rudquist and Sven T. Lagerwall
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Ferroelectrics, 315, pp. 221-230 (2005) - A study of a bistereogenic mesogen for the development of orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal materials
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Chris Yates, Sebastian Rauch and Gerd Heppke
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Ferroelectrics, 315, pp. 213-219 (2005) - Differences between smectic homo- and copolysiloxanes as a consequence of microphase separation
Martin Rößle, Lydia Braun, Dieter Schollmeyer, Rudolf Zentel,
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Ralf Stannarius
Liq. Cryst. 32, 5, pp. 533-538 (2005) - Demonstration of the antiferroelectric aspect of the helical superstructures in
Sm-C*, Sm-Cα* and Sm-Ca* liquid crystals
Jan P. F. Lagerwall
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Phys. Rev. E, 71, pp. 051703 (2005) - Generation of frustrated liquid crystal phases by mixing an achiral N–SmC mesogen with an antiferroelectric chiral smectic liquid crystal
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Christine Selbmann, Sebastian Rauch, Gerd Heppke
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J. Chem. Phys. 122, 14, pp. 144906 (2005) - A chameleon chiral polar liquid crystal: rod-shaped when nematic, bent-shaped when smectic
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Michael D. Wand and David M. Walba
Chem. Mater. 16, 19, pp. 3606 - 3615 (2004) - Polarity-directed analog electrooptic switching in a low-polarization chiral smectic liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Alexander Kane, Noel A. Clark and David M. Walba
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Phys. Rev. E, 70, p. 031703 (2004) - (-)-Isopinocampheol substituted mesogens: an investigation of the effect of bulky terminal groups in chiral smectic liquid crystals
Chris Yates, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Maurizio Nobili, Sebastian Rauch and Gerd Heppke
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Ferroelectrics, 311, pp. 67 - 75 (2004) - On the origin of high optical director tilt in a partially fluorinated orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Alexander Saipa and Roman Dabrowski
Liq. Cryst. 31, 9, pp. 1175-1184 (2004) - Ferroelectric polysiloxane liquid crystals with ’de Vries’-type smectic A* -smectic C* transitions
Martin Rößle, Rudolf Zentel, Jan Lagerwall and Frank Giesselmann
Liq. Cryst. (Preliminary Communication) 31, 6, pp. 883 - 887 (2004) - On the phase sequence of antiferroelectric liquid crystals and its relation to orientational and translational order
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Per Rudquist, Sven T. Lagerwall and Frank Giesselmann
Liq. Cryst. 30, 4, pp. 399 - 414 (2003) - Tilt plane orientation in antiferroelectric liquid crystal cells and the origin of the pretransitional effect
Per Rudquist, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Johann G. Meier, Koen D’havé and Sven T. Lagerwall
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Phys. Rev. E 66, 061708 (2002) - Antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixture without smectic layer shrinkage at the direct Sm-A* - Sm-Ca * transition
Frank Gießelmann, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Gunnar Andersson and Marc D. Radcliffe
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Phys. Rev. E 66, 051704 (2002) - Optical and X-ray evidence of the de Vries Sm-A*–Sm-C* transition in a non-layer shrinkage ferroelectric liquid crystal with very weak interlayer tilt correlation
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Marc Radcliffe
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Phys. Rev. E, 66, 031703 (2002) - Phases, phase transitions and confinement effects in a series of antiferroelectric liquid crystals
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Deven D. Parghi, Daniel Krüerke, Fathi Gouda, Pontus Jägemalm
Liq. Cryst. 29, 2, pp. 163-178 (2002) - Surface- and Field-Induced AFLC Structures Detected by Dielectric Spectroscopy
Jan Lagerwall, Per Rudquist, Sven Lagerwall, Bengt Stebler
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Ferroelectrics, 277, pp. 553 - 564 (2002) - Optic, electrooptic and dielectric properties of novel antiferroelectric liquid crystal compounds
Pontus Jägemalm, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Anders Dahlgren, Lachezar Komitov, Avtar Matharu, Chris Grover, Fathi Gouda, Abdul A. Kutub
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Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 147-157 (2000) - Electrooptic and Dielectric Properties of New Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Mixtures
Gunnar Andersson, Roman Dabrowski, Witold Drzewinski, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Marek Matuszczyk, Tomasz Matuszczyk, Pawel Perkowski and Zbigniew Raszewski
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Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 137-146 (2000) - Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals with 45° Tilt – A New Class of Promising Electro-Optic Materials
Koen D’havé, Anders Dahlgren, Per Rudquist, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Gunnar Andersson, Marek Matuszczyk, Sven T. Lagerwall, Roman Dabrowski and Witold Drzewinski
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Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 115-128 (2000) - On the Coexistence of SmC* and SmCA* Phases in Binary Chiral-Dopant Antiferroelectric Mixtures
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Deven D. Parghi and Gerd Heppke
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Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 211-221 (2000) - The Dependence on the Helical Pitch of the Antiferroelectric Dielectric Modes
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Tobias Fütterer, Dirk Moro and Gerd Heppke
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Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 223-231 (2000) - Dielectric Investigations of a Chiral Monomer and Side Chain Polymer
Fathi Gouda, Abdul A. Kutub, Katalin Fodor-Csorba, Giancarlo Galli, Emi Chiellini, Lachezar Komitov, Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Sven T. Lagerwall
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 352, pp. 169- 177 (2000) - Electrooptic and dielectric spectroscopy measurements of binary chiral-dopant antiferroelectric mixtures
Deven D. Parghi, Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Gerd Heppke
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Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 351, pp. 361-370 (2000) - The Case of Thresholdless Antiferroelectricity: Polarization-Stabilized Twisted SmC* Liquid Crystals give V-shaped Electro-Optic Response
Per Rudquist, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Marius Buivydas, Fathi Gouda, Sven T. Lagerwall, Noel A. Clark, Joseph E. Maclennan, Renfan F. Shao, David Coleman, Sebastien Bardon, Tommaso Bellini, Darren R. Link, Giorgio Natale, Matthew A. Glaser, David M. Walba, Michael D. Wand and X. H. Chen
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J. Mater. Chem., 9, 6, pp. 1257-1261 (1999)