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Overview

Gerhard Pelzl is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Their academic profile reflects involvement in research connected to this institution.

No recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields of study, subfields of study, or main topics of work are listed in the provided data.

No awards or distinctions are mentioned for this scientist, and they are currently living.

Best Publications

  • Banana-Shaped Compounds—A New Field of Liquid Crystals

    Gerhard Pelzl;Siegmar Diele;Wolfgang Weissflog

  • Polarization-modulated smectic liquid crystal phases.

    D. A. Coleman;J. Fernsler;N. Chattham;M. Nakata

  • Influence of lateral substituents on the mesophase behaviour of banana-shaped mesogens

    Wolfgang Weissflog;Hajnalka Nádasi;Ulrike Dunemann;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Preliminary communication Helical superstructures in a novel smectic mesophase formed by achiral banana-shaped molecules

    G. Pelzl;S. Diele;A. Jákli;W. Weissflog

  • Chirality and Macroscopic Polar Order in a Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid-Crystalline Phase Formed by Achiral Polyphilic Bent-Core Molecules This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.

    Gert Dantlgraber;Alexei Eremin;Siegmar Diele;Anton Hauser

  • New variants of polymorphism in banana-shaped mesogens with cyano-substituted central core

    Ina Wirth;Siegmar Diele;Alexei Eremin;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Spontaneous chiral ordering in the nematic phase of an achiral banana-shaped compound

    G. Pelzl;A Eremin;S. Diele;H. Kresse

  • Experimental evidence for an achiral orthogonal biaxial smectic phase without in-plane order exhibiting antiferroelectric switching behavior.

    A. Eremin;S. Diele;G. Pelzl;H. Nádasi

  • Ferroelectric liquid crystals

    Bak G. Yong;Barth Petra;Demus Dietrich;Joachimi Detlev

  • Designing banana-shaped liquid crystals without Schiff's base units: m-terphenyls, 2,6-diphenylpyridines and V-shaped tolane derivatives

    Dong Shen;Siegmar Diele;Gerhard Pelzl;Ina Wirth

  • News on Nematic-Biaxial Liquid Crystals1

    K. Praefcke;K. Praefcke;B. Kohne;B. Kohne;B. Gündogan;B. Gündogan;D. Singer;D. Singer

  • Carbohydrate Rod Conjugates: Ternary Rod−Coil Molecules Forming Complex Liquid Crystal Structures

    Bin Chen;Ute Baumeister;Gerhard Pelzl;Malay Kumar Das

  • Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric “banana phases” of new fluorinated five-ring bent-core mesogens

    Hajnalka Nádasi;Wolfgang Weissflog;Alexey Eremin;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Chirality and macroscopic polar order in a ferroelectric smectic liquid-crystalline phase formed by achiral polyphilic bent-core molecules.

    Gert Dantlgraber;Alexei Eremin;Siegmar Diele;Anton Hauser

  • Relationships between molecular structure and physical properties in bent-core mesogens.

    Wolfgang Weissflog;H.N Shreenivasa Murthy;Siegmar Diele;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Chiral ordering in the nematic and an optically isotropic mesophase of bent-core mesogens with a halogen substituent at the central core

    Wolfgang Weissflog;Siegmar Sokolowski;Heinz Dehne;Banani Das

  • Evidence for the Existence of the McMillan Phase in a Binary System of a Metallomesogen and 2,4,7‐Trinitrofluorenone

    Torsten Hegmann;Jens Kain;Siegmar Diele;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Structure and properties of liquid crystalline phases formed by achiral banana-shaped molecules

    S. Diele;S. Grande;H. Kruth;Ch. Lischka

  • Different nematic phases and a switchable SmCP phase formed by homologues of a new class of asymmetric bent-core mesogens

    Martin W. Schröder;Siegmar Diele;Gerhard Pelzl;Ulrike Dunemann

  • Unusual mesomorphic behaviour of new bent‐core mesogens derived from 4‐cyanoresorcinol

    Laura Kovalenko;Martin W. Schröder;R. Amaranatha Reddy;Siegmar Diele

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegmar Diele
Siegmar Diele Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Wolfgang Weissflog
Wolfgang Weissflog Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Antal Jakli
Antal Jakli Kent State University
Christian Slugovc
Christian Slugovc Graz University of Technology
Noel A. Clark
Noel A. Clark University of Colorado Boulder
Cyrille Boyer
Cyrille Boyer University of New South Wales
Goran Ungar
Goran Ungar Xi'an Jiaotong University
Egbert Zojer
Egbert Zojer Graz University of Technology

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