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Liquid Crystals Volume 42, 2015 - Issue 5-6: Commemorative Issue dedicated to George W Gray, CBE, FRS - Guest Editor: John W Goodby, FRS, Editor: Corrie T. Imrie
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Invited Article

The prehistory of discotic mesophases – a personal account of the study of the mesophase of diisobutylsilane diol

John LydonFaculty of Biological Sciences, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 666-677 | Received 30 Sep 2014, Published online: 13 Feb 2015

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