Issue 28, 2012
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Design of an extremely high birefringence nematic liquid crystal based on a dinaphthyl-diacetylene mesogen†

Yuki Arakawa,a   Shunpei Nakajima,a   Sungmin Kang,*a   Masayuki Shigeta,a   Gen-ichi Konishi*a  and  Junji Watanabea  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
E-mail: konishi.g.aa@m.titech.ac.jp, skang@polymer.titech.ac.jp
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Abstract

We designed dinaphthyl-diacetylene-based nematic liquid crystals with alkoxy tails (DNDA–OCm) and evaluated their birefringence (Δn). Actual measurements of pure target compounds showed that DNDA–OC2 had the highest value of 0.62 at 550 nm at Tc + 10 °C.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2JM32448B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Apr 2012
Accepted
24 May 2012
First published
24 May 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 13908-13910

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Design of an extremely high birefringence nematic liquid crystal based on a dinaphthyl-diacetylene mesogen

Y. Arakawa, S. Nakajima, S. Kang, M. Shigeta, G. Konishi and J. Watanabe, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 13908 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM32448B

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