新的手性Schiff碱液晶的合成及变温红外光谱研究(Ⅰ)

合成了1个新的手性Schiff碱类液晶并以DSC、偏光显微镜及变温红外光谱等手段对其热致相变过程进行了研究。     

Applications of multidirectional reflective light-control films on reflective polymer-dispersed liquid crystal displays for enhancement in image quality at lower viewing angles

In this paper, multidirectional light-control reflective (LCR) films are developed in order to create an active reflective structure that will enhance the image brightness and contrast ratio of reflective dye-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (D-PDLC) displays at lower viewing angles. Advantages of LCR films are that their production is low cost and they require a simple photolithographic fabrication method. The optimum design prism-type light-control reflective film succeeded in minimising the surface scattering effect; thus, the contrast ratio is much enhanced. The symmetric and asymmetric LCR films produced multidirectional scattering that enhances the reflectance at lower viewing angles, which has importance in future display applications. In particular, the prism LCR film has been found to be more influential on the reflectance of D-PDLC films due to multidirectional scattering of light by non-symmetric arrays. The improvement in contrast ratio has been confirmed by the enhancement of optical properties for reflective D-PDLC displays at lower viewing angles below 30°.     

液晶化学

液晶在近30年来受到科技界广泛关注,人们对它的性质、合成、用途进行了深入的研究,使其在现代科技领域占据重要地位。本文对液晶的性质及用途进行论述。     

Impact of co-doping concentration in copolymer network liquid crystals

ABSTRACT

The impact of varying the co-doping concentration of a mesogenic and a non-mesogenic monomer in the reactive mixtures used to create a copolymer network LCs was investigated. Use of copolymer has been found to improve the response properties in the obtained liquid crystal composites. The polymer network in the studied copolymer network LCs was examined by scanning electron microscopy and the response times in various samples were investigated. Samples were prepared with various reactive mixtures, each of which had a constant concentration of mesogenic monomer, various concentrations of non-mesogenic monomer, and the same amount of photoinitiator. These reactive mixtures were filled in home assembled test cells with planar alignment and then exposed to UV light. With increasing concentration of the non-mesogenic monomer, the response properties of the resulting copolymer network LC were improved. Usually, if the overall polymer content in a polymer network LC is increased, the threshold voltage is also increased. However, both threshold voltages and response times were lowered and the response properties were thus improved in the studied copolymer network LCs. This unexpected behavior could be traced back to inducing a grainy polymer morphology of the copolymer network by using a non-mesogenic monomer.     

两个新的氢键诱导液晶化合物的合成

通过４－丁氧基苯甲酸（４ＢＡ０与两个手性取代的苯乙烯基吡啶（ＶＳＺ及ＬＳＺ）间的氢键作用合成了２个新的液晶化合物，用ＤＳＣ、偏光显微镜研究了其液晶行为，并由红外光谱证实了分子间氢键的存在，形成的复合物４ＢＡ－ＶＳＺ具有手性近晶Ｃ相。     

新型对称联苯双酯类液晶材料的合成和晶体结构

设计并合成了4个对称联苯双酯类液晶化合物,化合物结构通过红外和核磁表征,它们的介晶性通过差示扫描量热仪(DSC),X射线衍射仪(XRD)和热台偏光显微镜(POM)进行了研究.并测定了4,4'-3,3',5,5'-四甲基联苯-二(4-甲基苯甲酸酯)(Ⅲa)的单晶结构,结果显示:晶体属于单斜晶系,P21/c空间群,晶胞参数为a=18.525(3)(A),b=12.196(2)(A),c=12.195(2)(A),β=97.142(2)°,V=2733.7(9)(A)3,Z=4,Dc=1.163 Mg/m3,R=0.0521,Rw=0.1161.化合物均为热致型互变液晶,并讨论了氧原子、不饱和端基和端基链长对介晶性的影响.     

1-烷基-3-甲基咪唑溴化盐离子液体的晶体结构及性能

以不同链长溴代烷烃和N-甲基咪唑反应得到1-烷基-3-甲基咪唑溴化盐,用元素分析和核磁共振对化合物进行了表征.室温下用溶剂蒸发法得到了单晶,并用X射线单晶衍射法测定了晶体结构,该晶体属于三斜晶系,空间群为P-1.化合物采用双分子层结构,水分子参与结构的形成,整个化合物由交叉的线性烷基链、咪唑头基、溴离子和水分子组成,溴离子和水分子之间较强的氢键作用在(010)方向上形成了一个无限的O-H···Br氢键链.用偏光显微镜、差示扫描量热(DSC)技术研究了其液晶行为,证明其一水合物为近晶相热致液晶.液晶区域的温度范围较宽说明水分子起到稳定作用.     

Computer simulation of liquid crystals

Summary We review recent progress in the computer simulation of liquid crystals, with special emphasis on hard particle models. Surprisingly, the simplest molecular models, taking account only of molecular size and shape, are sufficient to generate a wide variety of liquid crystalline phases, closely analogous to those observed in real life. Thermodynamic stability of different phases is very sensitive to shape, and presumably will also be sensitive to further details of intermolecular interactions as they are incorporated into the model. Realistic atom-atom potential models of liquid crystals are available, but the associated simulations are quite expensive. Thus, while idealized models may be used to study quite general, fundamental properties of mesophases, the modelling of specific liquid crystal systems in a realistic way remains a great challenge. Progress continues to be made on both these fronts.     

Application of the novel dynamic thermo-optical analysis for identification of the sequence of mesophases in thermotropic liquid crystal

Identification of mesophases using a polarising microscope is vital in the area of research and development of the liquid crystal (LC) materials, however, sometimes it is very difficult to distinguish one texture from another. Here, we propose a novel method allowing for the examination of thermotropic phase sequence in polymorphic LCs called dynamic thermo-optical analysis (DTOA). In the DTOA technique the LC subjected to the cooling process is simultaneously influenced by the electric field varying sinusoidally with time. It results in the dynamic changes in the light intensity passing through the layer of such LC observed under a polarised microscope and recorded by a charge-coupled device camera. The magnitude of the changes uniquely depends on the type of the mesophase. The subsequent numerical analysis of the recorded movie (performed with a help of the image-processing software) reveals the changes in the amplitude of the average intensity of the images of the respective textures, i.e. nematic, SmA, SmC, SmI, thereby allowing for their clear identification. Furthermore, the DTOA allows to distinguish easily the SmA from the SmC phase. The azobenzene-based LC known of rich sequence of mesophases has been used here to demonstrate the principle of the DTOA method.     

Confinement-Induced Fabrication of Liquid Crystalline Polymeric Fibers

In aqueous media, liquid crystalline droplets typically form spherical shapes in order to minimize surface energy. Recently, non-spherical geometry has been reported using molecular self-assembly of surfactant-stabilized liquid crystalline oligomers, resulting in branched and randomly oriented filamentous networks. In this study, we report a polymerization of liquid crystalline polymeric fibers within a micro-mold. When liquid crystal oligomers are polymerized in freely suspended aqueous media, curvilinear and randomly networked filaments are obtained. When reactive liquid crystalline monomers are oligomerized in a micro-channel, however, highly aligned linear fibers are polymerized. Within a top-down microfabricated mold, a bottom-up molecular assembly was successfully achieved in a controlled manner by micro-confinement, suggesting a unique opportunity for the programming architecture of materials via a hybrid approach.     

Dielectric behaviour of binary dual-frequency nematics with low crossover frequencies

Binary dual-frequency nematic liquid crystals synthesised at the Military University of Technology were measured by dielectric means. All the investigated materials exhibit low crossover frequency. They were composed of only two molecules with longitudinal and transverse dipole moments. The main difference is the molecular weight of the molecules. Results of relaxation parameters of detected mode and crossover frequency are shown. The influence of structure on ion conductivity is discussed. The broad phase transition from an isotropic phase to a nematic one was observed.     

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。     

Effective Permittivity of a Multi-Phase System: Nanoparticle-Doped Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Films

This paper studies the effective dielectric properties of heterogeneous materials of the type particle inclusions in a host medium, using the Maxwell Garnet and the Bruggeman theory. The results of the theories are applied at polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films, nanoparticles (NP)-doped LCs, and developed for NP-doped PDLC films. The effective permittivity of the composite was simulated at sufficiently high frequency, where the permittivity is constant, obtaining results on its dependency on the constituents’ permittivity and concentrations. The two models are compared and discussed. The method used for simulating the doped PDLC retains its general character and can be applied for other similar multiphase composites. The methods can be used to calculate the effective permittivity of a LC composite, or, in the case of a composite in which one of the phases has an unknown permittivity, to extract it from the measured composite permittivity. The obtained data are necessary in the design of the electrical circuits.     

Synthesis and properties of reactive liquid crystal monomers and side-chain liquid crystalline polymers

Two nematic liquid crystal (LC) monomers containing double bonds in the side chain were designed and synthesised. Length of the side groups varied from 1 to 2 methylene units. The side-chain polymers were synthesised by hydrosilylation reaction. The molecular structures of the intermediates and the LC monomers were characterised by Fourier transform infrared, elemental analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The thermal phase behaviour of the monomers and polymers were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and polar optical microscopy coupled with hot stage. The LC monomers showed only one nematic mesophase in the cooling process. And, the two polymers exhibit an enantiotroppic nematic mesophase either in the heating or in the cooling process.     

含两种不同介晶基团的半刚性共聚酯液晶态的结构研究

用Ｘ－光衍射，偏光显微镜及ＤＳＣ对含两种不同长度介晶基团４，４’－联苯二酚（Ⅰ）和对苯二甲酸二（对羟苯基）酯（Ⅱ）的系列共聚酯的液晶态进行了表征，据其液晶态中两种介晶单元的堆砌方式提出了可能的模型，这种模型很好地解释了液晶态的Ｘ－光衍射分布．     

新型侧链液晶聚甲基丙烯酸酯研究

以横向取代的液晶基元为侧基合成了聚甲基丙烯酸酯,并对此聚合物进行初步表征.在玻璃化温度(170℃)以上样品进入液晶态.样品较高的玻璃化温度以及能形成液晶态的特性被认为是棒状液晶基元使聚合物分子链刚性化的结果.     

AEO-9体系溶致液晶性能及其组成方程

以非离子表面活性剂十二烷基醇聚氧乙烯醚(AEO-9)/正丁醇/正辛烷/水组成的四元体系为研究对象,绘制了拟三元相图。在液晶区选取样品点,拍摄纹理照片,并结合^2HNMR谱图确定了液晶类型其中主要是状液晶。利用小角X射线衍射测定了层状液晶的层间距d,得到层间距d和液晶含水量的关系。根据层状液晶结构的特点,推导出层状液晶组成方程,并对本体系进行了验证。结果表明,根据议程计算出的液晶区域的开头和位置与实验测得的相图中液晶的开头和位置基本相同,为实际应用提供了依据。     

液晶基元直接横挂于主链上的液晶共聚物研究

以含有液晶基元的单体，２，５－双（４－甲氧基苯甲酰氧基）苯乙烯与丙烯醇，通过自由基共聚合反应，首次合成了一系列含液晶性单体和非液晶性单体两种结构的共聚物．采用ＤＳＣ、偏光显微镜和Ｘ－衍射方法研究了共聚物的液晶行为，发现单体和所有的共聚物均有明显的热致液晶性及较宽的液晶态温度范围；随共聚物中液晶性单体含量增加，共聚物玻璃化转变温度Ｔｇ和热分解温度Ｔｄ有所上升，但Ｔｇ的变化较小．     

Photomechanical effects in liquid crystalline polymer networks and elastomers

Liquid crystals are widely employed as stimuli‐responsive materials. Liquid crystallinity can be retained in polymeric form. Photoinduced mechanical effects in liquid crystalline polymer networks and elastomers have been a topic of considerable recent research. This review details the historical underpinnings and recent advances in the synthesis and the corresponding photomechanical response of these materials. In nearly all cases, the conversion of light into mechanical work has employed azobenzene as either a guest additive or covalently attached to the network. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2018 , 56, 695–705