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Photonic properties of polymer-stabilized photosensitive cholesteric liquid crystal studied by combination of optical activity, transmission and fluorescence

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Pages 1339-1348 | Received 03 Nov 2020, Accepted 15 Dec 2020, Published online: 18 Jan 2021

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