139927-63-2Relevant academic research and scientific papers
One-dimensional to three-dimensional electronic conduction in liquid crystalline mesophases
Tokunaga, Keiji,Takayashiki, Yukiko,Iino, Hiroaki,Hanna, Jun-Ichi
scheme or table, p. 250 - 258 (2010/06/15)
We have established the electronic conduction in the nematic phase of a small molecule of a 2-phenylbenzothiazole derivative, i.e., 2-(4'- octyloxyphenyl)-6-butoxybenzothiazole (8O-PBT-O4). This gives a new insight into the quest for the electronic conduction in liquid crystals, which was initiated by Kusabayashi and Labes in late 1960s and had succeeded over several decades, leading it to the end. In addition, it is clarified that the ionic conduction often observed in less ordered mesophases is induced with trace amounts of chemical impurities due to its low viscosity. The present result indicates that the charge carrier transport in the mesophase is electronic in its intrinsic nature irrespective of mesophases and molecular sizes, i.e., 1D-electronic conduction in columnar phase, 2D-electronic conduction in smectic mesophases, and 3D-electronic conduction in the nematic phase.
Charge carrier transport properties in liquid crystalline 2-phenylbenzothiazole derivatives
Tokunaga, Keiji,Iino, Hiroaki,Hanna, Jun-Ichi
scheme or table, p. 241 - 249 (2010/06/16)
We synthesized liquid crystalline 2-phenylbenzothiazole derivatives and investigated their charge carrier transport properties by time-of-flight experiments. These materials show less ordered phases such as smectic A, smectic C, and nematic phases at temperature range lower than 100°C, and their mobility was relatively small, from 10-5cm2/Vs to 10 -4cm2/Vs. In addition, the mobility depends on temperature, while it did not depend on electric fields. According to these results, we estimated the eneregy distribution of density of states responsible for condition, σ of Gaussian width, to be 78 ～ 118meV.
