聚肽刚性链/聚氧化丙烯嵌段共聚物的合成与相行为

采用活性阴离子聚合方法,以不同分子量的聚氧化丙烯为引发剂合成了不同分子量的聚（γ－苯甲酯－L－谷氨酸）嵌段共聚物,并用^1H-NMR、IR和偏光显微镜等方法对共聚物进行了表征。结果表明：在1,1,2,2－四氨乙烷中,当溶液浓度一定时,聚（γ－苯甲酯－L－谷氨酸）嵌段共聚物呈现出胆甾型液晶的性质。温度升高时,聚（γ－苯甲酯－L－谷氨酸）共聚物的液晶相溶液发生相转变行为,并且其液晶相稳定性低于相同分子量的聚（γ－苯甲酯－L－谷氨酸）。这与利用Flory-Matheson的构象可变液晶分子理论模型的计算结果相一致。     

电场对聚肽液晶相行为的影响

聚合物液晶的相转变不仅可以通过溶液温度或聚合物的浓度的改变来实现,也可以通过施加外电场、磁场等取向场来达到．在二氧六环、氯仿、间甲酚等支持聚肽a一螺旋构象的溶剂中,当PBLG(聚L-谷氨酸γ-苯甲酯)达到一定的浓度会形成胆甾型溶致液晶．对这种液晶施加强度足够     

侧链液晶聚合物相转变点的分子动力学模拟

液晶基本上可分为３类：向列型液晶、近晶型液晶和胆甾型液晶［１］．液晶材料的相转变温度的预测对选择和设计液晶材料具有非常重要的作用．本文用分子动力学模拟法对聚［ω－（４′－甲氧基联苯－４－氧基）己基］甲基丙烯酸酯（ＰＭ６ＭＰＰ）单链分子进行了研究,模拟...     

聚甲基丙烯酸胆甾醇酯共聚物的合成、结构与性能研究 Ⅳ.PMACE的相态转变及光学性质

Finkelmann和等人对侧链胆甾型高分子液晶的研究表明,将具有液晶功能的低分子基团,经过一个软段连接到柔性高分子主链上的梳型高分子在一定的温度下可以形成液晶态,调节侧链高分子液晶的分子结构、软段长度,可以改变其相态转变温度及微区形态。前已报导具有不同侧链结构的聚甲基丙烯酸胆甾醇酯共聚物的合成、相态转变及光学性质,本文通过对聚甲基丙烯酸胆甾醇乙烯酯共聚物(PMACE)的液晶态及结晶态的微细结构及相态转变与胆甾侧链含量关系的研究,给出了液晶态的形成条件及结构特征。     

黄原胶溶致液晶行为的研究

以小角激光光散射法、偏光显微镜法及旋转粘度计法研究了黄原胶水溶液在不同浓度和温度下的光学性质。结构区域及粘性行为。发现当溶液浓度达到3％(临界浓度值)时,呈现胆甾型液晶特征,液晶的形成对温度有显著的依赖性。     

乙基氰乙基纤维素／聚丙烯酸复合物及大分子胆甾型液晶相的形态结构特征

对乙基氰乙基纤维素／丙烯酸胆甾型液晶溶液的液晶性，液晶态的织构特征，丙烯酸在液晶溶液中的聚合反应及在反应过程中胆甾型液晶相结构和性能的变化等方面进行了研究，     

有机硅侧链液晶研究进展

综述了国内外有机硅侧链液晶近年来的研究进展，对近晶型、席夫碱型、向列型、胆甾型、偶氮苯型、鱼骨型以及光学非线性型几种主要类型的有机硅侧链液晶进行了详细介绍，并对近年来受到重视的有机硅侧链液晶电流性和离聚物研究进展作了较全面的总结，最后对其应用前景进行了展望。     

磁场对乙基纤维素胆甾型液晶相的影响

高分子胆甾型液晶相是一个在高分子和液晶领域都引起广泛兴趣的课题,不仅因为自然界中的多种生物大分子,如纤维素,多肽,DNA等可以形成胆甾型液晶相;而且由于胆甾相具有特殊的螺旋结构(如图1所示),能产生一些特殊的光学性能,如强烈的旋光性,圆二色性和选择性反射光性能等;并带来相应的应用,正是由于高分子胆甾相材料的性能和应用,使得高分子胆甾相液晶的相态转变和结构变化也一直倍受关注。     

聚苯撑苯并二噻唑的甲基磺酸溶液的相转变过程及其动力学研究

用退偏振光强度法及偏光显微镜研究了溶致性液晶高分子聚苯撑苯并二噻唑的甲基磺酸溶液(PBT/MSA)由液晶相至各向同性相(N→I转变),及由各向同性相至液晶相(I→N转变)的相变过程.液晶相的形成(I→N)服从Av-rami方程,Avrami指数为1左右,表明该体系的液晶相是以一维棒状方式形成的.相转变温度与浓度有关,提高温度可加速在应力下液晶相长程有序结构的形成.     

聚苯撑苯并二噻唑的甲基磺酸溶液的相转变过程及其动力学研究

 用退偏振光强度法及偏光显微镜研究了溶致性液晶高分子聚苯撑苯并二噻唑的甲基磺酸溶液(PBT/MSA)由液晶相至各向同性相(N→I转变),及由各向同性相至液晶相(I→N转变)的相变过程.液晶相的形成(I→N)服从Av-rami方程,Avrami指数为1左右,表明该体系的液晶相是以一维棒状方式形成的.相转变温度与浓度有关,提高温度可加速在应力下液晶相长程有序结构的形成.     

Thermal tuning band gap in cholesteric liquid crystals

The phase of a liquid crystal (LC) changing from a nematic phase to a cholesteric (Ch) mesophase is achieved by adding different ratios of chiral dopants S811. By studying the transmission spectrum, we are able to measure the helical pitch in cholesteric phase. The pitch in the mixtures of nematic E7 and chiral dopants S811 as a function of the concentration of the dopant and temperature is investigated. The sensitivity of the selective reflection notch of the cholesteric phase to the thermal tuning depends strongly on the ratios of the chiral dopants. It reveals that the influence of temperature is more profound for those cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) which exhibit smectic A (SmA) at lower temperatures. When fitted using Keating's formula, the helical pitch calculated from our experimental results lies on the predicted curve. Optimised ratios of the mixture CLCs for the optimised reflection band with the specified wavelength ranging from 467 nm to 2123 nm are suggested.     

Optical rotatory power of liquid crystal mixtures II mixtures of a nematogenic and a non-mesomorphic chiralic compounds

Addition of a chiralic eight-membered ring derivative of 1, 1′-dinaphthyl (I) to a nematic mesophase produces an optical rotatory power Φ which exceeds the optical rotation of the solute I by a factor of several orders of magnitude. The temperature dependence Φ (T) as well as other optical properties are characteristic of cholesteric liquid crystals. From this, evidence has been derived that non-mesomorphic chiral molecules transform a nematic into a cholesteric mesophase. The screw-sense of the helical arrangement depends on the chirality of the molecules added.     

Copolyesters exhibiting a thermotropic cholesteric phase

Mesomorphic copolymers were synthesized by incorporating varying ratios of azelaic acid and (+)-3-methyl adipic acid into copolyesters based upon 4,4′-dihydroxybiphenyl. Introduction of the phenylene (+)-3-methyl adipate unit broadens the temperature range of the nematic phase of the azelate homopolymer and, at the same time, produces a chiral nematic (cholesteric) mesophase which exhibits various iridescent colors. Circular dichroism measurements were used to determine the pitch of the cholesteric liquid crystals. The pitch decreased gradually with increasing temperature, and the inverse pitch increased in direct proportion to the molar content of the units containing (+)-3-methyl adipate. The twisted cholesteric structure could be conserved by quenching to produce films with various colors at room temperature. Annealing these films at a temperature immediately below that of the crystal–mesophase transition improved the regularity of the cholesteric structure.     

高分子液晶态有序性对其结晶过程的影响

采用退偏振光强度法、ＳＡＬＳ和ＰＯＭ测定了高分子液晶态有序微区结构随体系温度变化的规律,并用ＤＳＣ法研究具有不同有序微区结构尺寸的液晶态的结晶过程．结果发现,高分子液晶态有序性或有序微区结构是随着体系退火温度和时间的变化而变化．同时从相应的不同有序性为起始态进行结晶时,其结晶速率明显不同．并讨论了高分子液晶态的结晶机理     

Aqueous cholesteric liquid crystals using uncharged rodlike polypeptides

The aqueous, lyotropic liquid-crystalline phase behavior of the alpha-helical polypeptide, poly(N(epsilon)-2-[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl-lysine) (1), has been studied using optical microscopy and X-ray scattering. Solutions of optically pure 1 were found to form cholesteric liquid crystals at volume fractions that decreased with increasing average chain length. At very high volume fractions, the formation of a hexagonal mesophase was observed. The pitch of the cholesteric phase could be varied by a mixture of enantiomeric samples L-1 and D-1, where the pitch increased as the mixture approached equimolar. The cholesteric phases could be untwisted, using either magnetic field or shear flow, into nematic phases, which relaxed into cholesterics upon removal of field or shear. We have found that the phase diagram of 1 in aqueous solution parallels that of poly(gamma-benzyl glutamate) in organic solvents, thus providing a useful system for liquid-crystal applications requiring water as solvent.     

Crystallization behavior of polyethers containing odd numbers of methylene spacers from the isotropic and liquid crystalline states

A series of thermotropic polyethers synthesized from 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl) - 2 - (2 - methyl - 4 - hydroxyphenyl) - ethane and α,ω-dibromo-n-alkanes with odd numbers of methylene units (MBPE-n = odd) shows monotropic mesophase behavior. In isothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) experiments, two—sometimes even three—exothermic transition processes can be observed when the crystallization temperature is below the mesophase transition temperature, while only one exothermic process is present above the mesophase transition temperature. The melting behavior of the crystals grown from the mesophase and from the isotropic melt states is different. The crystals grown from the mesophase state exhibit a larger overall heat of transition and a higher transition temperature compared with those grown from the isotropic melt. This may be attributed to the molecular interfacial connections between the crystal and amorphous regions when MBPEs crystallize from the mesophase state. The difference in morphology between the crystals grown from the different states has also been studied with polarized light microscopy (PLM) and transmission electronic microscopy (TEM). The structures of the crystals grown from the different states are, however, the same, as evidenced through wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) measurements. From the banded morphology of MBPE samples observed from PLM, the defect textures observed through TEM and the results of WAXD experiments, this mesophase can be identified as a nematic liquid crystal state.     

Chiral Nematic Cellulose Acetate Films; Reflectivity and Effect of Deacetylation

Cellulose acetate samples with a range of degrees of substitution (DS) were prepared by deacetylation of cellulose acetate (DS = 2.5). Chiral nematic solutions of the samples were prepared in formic acid. A handedness reversal from left to right was observed as the DS used to prepare the mesophase increased from 1.8 to 2.4. By selection of a suitably long-pitch mesophase, chiral nematic films cast from a CA (DS = 2.2)/formic acid solution showed a feint reflection of circularly polarized blue light. Deacetylation of this CA film gave a chiral nematic cellulose film with a more intense reflection band at the same wavelength. The improvement in intensity is attributed to the higher intrinsic birefringence of cellulose compared to cellulose acetate.     

Synthesis and properties of new non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers containing mandelic acid and cyano group

Four non-symmetric dimers containing mandelic acid as the chiral core have been synthesised, termed as QBMA-B, QBMA-BCN, QBMA-BBCN and QBBMA-BBCN, respectively. Chemical structures and liquid crystal (LC) properties of the dimers were characterised by FTIR, ¹H-NMR, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TG) and polarised optical microscopy (POM). The results indicated that the rigidity and conformation of the molecules of the dimers played important effects on their mesophase properties. QBMA-B did not display any mesophase, QBMA-BCN and QBMA-BBCN exhibited nematic (N) phases, while QBBMA-BBCN displayed cholesteric (ch) phase, which indicated that chiral mandelic acid could induce cholesteric phase, but some attention should be paid to the molecular conformation to obtain cholesteric phase. For the four dimers, melting temperature (T_m) increased first and then decreased, inferring that molecular conformation played a more important effect besides molecular weight and rigidity.