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Synthesis of diphenyl-diacetylene-based nematic liquid crystals and their high birefringence properties
Arakawa, Yuki,Nakajima, Shunpei,Ishige, Ryohei,Uchimura, Makoto,Kang, Sungmin,Konishi, Gen-Ichi,Watanabe, Junji
, p. 8394 - 8398 (2012)
We synthesized two series of diphenyl-diacetylene (DPDA)-based materials with alkoxy and alkyl tails of length m (DPDA-OCm and DPDA-Cm, respectively), and measured their nematic-phase birefringence (Δn) as a function of wavelength and temperature. We found that Δn decreases with an increase in m, possibly by a dilution effect of the low-Δn alkyl tail. Further, of the two series, Δn was found to be relatively higher in the DPDA-OCm materials, with the highest value of 0.4 obtained for DPDA-OC1 at 550 nm at 10 °C below the isotropic-to-nematic transition temperature. Further, we observed the temperature dependence for Δn, which is proportional to the order parameter (s). From extrapolation to s = 1 (the perfect orientation state), it is speculated that the DPDA-O moiety has the potential to afford a very large Δn of 0.9. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012.
