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Title: Resonant Carbon K -Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Lattice-Free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: Soft Dilative Elasticity of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase

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Physical Review Letters
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Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 116 Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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American Physical Society
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United States
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English

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Zhu, Chenhui, Tuchband, Michael R., Young, Anthony, Shuai, Min, Scarbrough, Alyssa, Walba, David M., Maclennan, Joseph E., Wang, Cheng, Hexemer, Alexander, and Clark, Noel A. Resonant Carbon K -Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Lattice-Free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: Soft Dilative Elasticity of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.147803.
Zhu, Chenhui, Tuchband, Michael R., Young, Anthony, Shuai, Min, Scarbrough, Alyssa, Walba, David M., Maclennan, Joseph E., Wang, Cheng, Hexemer, Alexander, & Clark, Noel A. Resonant Carbon K -Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Lattice-Free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: Soft Dilative Elasticity of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.147803
Zhu, Chenhui, Tuchband, Michael R., Young, Anthony, Shuai, Min, Scarbrough, Alyssa, Walba, David M., Maclennan, Joseph E., Wang, Cheng, Hexemer, Alexander, and Clark, Noel A. Thu . "Resonant Carbon K -Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Lattice-Free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: Soft Dilative Elasticity of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.147803.
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