This work introduces the new sub-league of the RoboCup Soccer Simulation League, called Physical Visualization. We show how the fundamental collaborative concepts of this new sub-league shift essential research issues from the playing agents themselves to the development of a new versatile research and educational platform. Additionally, we discuss benefits of this new platform in terms of standardization, flexibility and reasonable price. We also try to characterize and discuss the place of this new sub-league within the RoboCup community. Finally, competition formats and roadmaps are presented and discussed.

A variety of pyranose derivatives with a trifluoromethyl group were synthesized and found to be excellent chiral dopants for ferroelectric liquid crystals. Relationships between molecular structures and induced ferroelectric properties were discussed.

Novel ferroelectric liquid crystals with a trifluoromethylated pyranose were synthesized and their mesomorphic properties were investigated. These compounds exhibited a chiral smectic C phase and showed very large spontaneous polarization over 700 nC·cm−2. Relationships between molecular structures and physical properties were discussed.

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