in Smectic Liquid Crystals
** Banana-shaped molecules on smectic layers (smectic CP)
have a spontaneous polarization, P.

[Smectics]

** Polarization vector for smectic CP
H. R. Brand, P. E. Cladis and H. Pleiner.
First published in  Macromolecules 25, 7223 (1992).

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