Suresh Das; Narayan, G; Shibu Abraham; Jayaraman, N; Singh, M K; Krishna Prasad, S; Shankar Rao, D S
(Wiley, 2008)
A series of symmetrical bolaamphiphiles possessing a diphenylbutadiene core and glucopyranoside head groups linked together by oligomethylene spacers, were synthesized and their thermotropic liquid crystalline properties ...