Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Structure-property relationships in non-chiral liquid crystal oligomers stabilizing blue phases

H Iwamochi, A Yoshizawa

Index: Iwamochi, Hirotoshi; Yoshizawa, Atsushi Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2009 , vol. 509, # 1 p. 223 - 232

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Abstract

We prepared 4-(4-cyanophenyl) phenyl 4-octyloxybenzoate derivatives possessing a laterally attached mesogen and investigated their phase transition behavior. They showed a wide temperature range of a nematic phase in spite of being far from a rod-like structure. Each oligomer was found to induce blue phases in the mixture with a conventional chiral smectic liquid crystal. A binary mixture of 4-(4-cyanophenyl) phenyl 4-octyloxy-2-} 11-} 4-[2 ...