Issue 74, 2013

Tuning ‘de Vries-like’ properties in binary mixtures of liquid crystals with different molecular lengths

Abstract

Smectic liquid crystals with ‘de Vries-like’ properties are characterized by a maximum layer contraction of ≤1% upon transition from the orthogonal SmA phase to the tilted SmC phase. We show that binary mixtures of ‘de Vries-like’ and conventional SmC mesogens with a molecular length ratio of 1.34 undergo a SmA–SmC phase transition with a maximum layer contraction ranging from 1.0 to 1.9% depending on the mixture composition.

Graphical abstract: Tuning ‘de Vries-like’ properties in binary mixtures of liquid crystals with different molecular lengths

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Jul 2013
Accepted
01 Aug 2013
First published
01 Aug 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 8202-8204

Tuning ‘de Vries-like’ properties in binary mixtures of liquid crystals with different molecular lengths

Q. Song, A. Bogner, F. Giesselmann and R. P. Lemieux, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 8202 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45207G

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