Meanings
noun
- The removal of chirality
Recent experiments probing a new ferroelectric liquid crystal (CLF08) confined in cells with planar alignment have shown dielectric and optic anomalies suggesting the onset of ferrielectric ordering within the surface lattice of dechiralisation lines.
2015, B. Mettout, H. Pasco Logbo, Y. Gagou, H. Vasseur, P.Gisse, “Ferrielectricity in smectic-C* dechiralisation lines lattices”, in arXiv
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