Influence of interim alkyl chain length on phase transitions and wide-band reflective behaviors of side-chain liquid crystalline elastomers with binaphthalene …
A series of side-chain polysiloxane liquid crystalline elastomers, EC m (where m is the number of carbon atoms in the interim alkyl groups, and m= 4, 6, 8, 10), with binaphthalene derivatives as crosslinkings, were designed and synthesized. The mesophase structures of these elastomers were dependent on the value of m. The elastomers with m≤ 8 could form cholesteric (Ch) phases, while both smectic A and Ch phases could be formed for the ...
[Medeiros, David R.; Hale, Michael A.; Hung, Raymond J. P.; Leitko, Jeffrey K.; Willson, C. Grant Journal of Materials Chemistry, 1999 , vol. 9, # 7 p. 1453 - 1460]
[Medeiros, David R.; Hale, Michael A.; Hung, Raymond J. P.; Leitko, Jeffrey K.; Willson, C. Grant Journal of Materials Chemistry, 1999 , vol. 9, # 7 p. 1453 - 1460]
[Medeiros, David R.; Hale, Michael A.; Hung, Raymond J. P.; Leitko, Jeffrey K.; Willson, C. Grant Journal of Materials Chemistry, 1999 , vol. 9, # 7 p. 1453 - 1460]