高分子液晶向列相的向错结构

高分子液晶态向错结构在正交偏振片下呈现出具有不同数目黑刷子的纹影织构，是由于分子指向矢取向排列上的不连续性所引起的一种光学效应。近年来，高分子液晶态向错结构的研究已取得了较大进展，发展和应用片晶装饰、条带织构装饰和表面裂纹装饰等技术可以在电镜和偏光显微镜下直接观察各种向错结构。本文简要介绍高分子液晶态向列相的向错和反转壁结构的几何学、高强度向错以及近年在实验上观察各类型向错形态的研究进展。     

胆甾液晶／聚合物多组分体系的结构与性能研究（Ⅲ）

应用Ｘ射线衍射，偏光显微镜及电子显微镜研究了胆甾液晶与甲基丙烯酸甲酯－甲基西烯酸丁酯无规共聚物共混体系的形态结构，研究了体系的结晶态及液晶态的和为和共聚物含量及组成对光学织构的影响。     

聚对氧化偶氮苯酚酯系列热致性液晶高分子的合成及液晶态研究

本文用界面缩聚法合成聚对氧化偶氧苯酚酯系列热致性液晶高分子。并用DSC,X-光衍射和偏光显微镜对其结构和液晶相进行了表征与研究。观察液晶态织态结构,计算液晶态时分子链间距,并观察聚合物取向液晶态的结晶结构。     

高分子液晶态弹性体的研究进展

较系统地论述了高分子液晶态弹性体的合成、结构、液晶性质、热弹性质、光弹性质、粘弹性质和液体扩散性能,指出高分子液晶态弹性体是显示多种特异性能的高性能高分子材料。     

胆甾液晶／聚合物多组分体系的结构与性能研究（Ⅲ）──ChN／poly（MMA－CO－BMA）混合体系的形态结构

应用Ｘ射线衍射、偏光显微镜及电子显微镜研究了胆甾液晶与甲基丙烯酸甲酯（ＭＭＡ）─甲基丙烯酸丁酯（ＢＭＡ）无规共聚物共混体系的形态结构。研究了体系的结晶态及液晶态的行为和共聚物含量及组成对光学织构的影响。     

手征性侧链液晶高分子取向结构的研究

用偏光显微镜,红外二色性和Ｘ 射线衍射研究了一种手征性侧链液晶高分子的相态织构和弛豫行为．偏光显微镜观察这种侧链液晶高分子冻结取向液晶态薄膜时,可观察到与剪切方向垂直的明暗相间的条带织构．红外二向色性的结果表明,取向态中侧链上的介晶基元倾向于与剪切方向垂直排列．取向和非取向膜的Ｘ射线衍射揭示了该侧链液晶高分子具有反铁电性液晶的两套反相螺旋结构．取向薄膜在液晶态的弛豫行为表明,取向作用能促进侧链高分子近晶相层状结构的生长,而且介晶基元的取向在弛豫过程中能保持下来．     

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。     

几类非常规液晶材料的研究进展

本文综述了液晶二聚体、多爪型液晶及香蕉形液晶等几类非常规液晶材料的研究进展。结合笔者近几年的研究积累,着重介绍:(1)液晶二聚体的分子结构与液晶态结构及液晶二聚体所特有的奇偶效应与近晶多形性;(2)多爪型液晶的分子结构与液晶态结构的特点及由于兼有棒状分子与盘状分子的结构特点而具备的特殊的相变性质;(3)香蕉形液晶的分子结构与液晶态结构及香蕉形液晶所特有的手性与极化序。在介绍各类液晶材料的特点及研究热点的同时,围绕分子结构与液晶态结构的关系这一主题,深入讨论了各种液晶材料形成特殊分子排列及表现出特殊物理性质的机理。     

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     

聚（对羟基苯甲酸－对苯二甲酸双酚A酯）的液晶结构与相变

用ＤＳＣ、ＷＡＸＤ和热台偏光显微镜等研究了热处理和外力作用对标题共聚酯液晶微观结构和序态结构的影响。对出现的双玻璃化转变现象进行了讨论     

一代树状碳硅烷液晶研究-端基含12个4-硝基偶氮苯介晶基元

用发散法合成了以四碳硅烷为核心，周边含12个4-硝基偶氮苯介晶基元（M5） 端基的新的一代树状碳硅烷（D1）液晶，并用元素分析、核磁共振、基质辅助激光 解吸离子化飞行时间质谱（MALDI-TOF-MS）、红外、紫外、偏光显微镜、差示扫描 量热（DSC）和X射线衍射法（WAXD）表征。介晶基元化合物（M5）显示向列相，树 状物D1显示胆甾相和S_E相。D1的液晶相相行为是K70Ch188I185Ch58S_E-48K。     

Conformational transitions in macromolecules of complex chemical structure during liquid crystalline ordering

Conformational transitions in thermotropic main-chain polymers of complex chemical structure including homopolymers with possibility of conformational transformations in mesogens and random copolymers (CPLs) containing mesogens of the same type and spacers of different lengths were investigated. It was demonstrated that liquid crystalline (LC) state influences conformational transformations in fragments of chain restraining them in comparison with an isotropic melt. It was found that CPLs studied form LC order of smectic type. Peculiarities in spacers behaviour during transition to LC state ensure formation of such type of LC order. Conclusion about dependence of mechanism of smectic LC order formation on chemical structure of rigid components of CPLs is made.     

Preparation of liquid crystalline polymers with monosubstituted ferrocenyl pendant groups and generation of unpaired electrons by complexation with tetracyanoethylene in the solid state

Liquid crystalline (LC) polymers with monosubstituted ferrocenyl units in the side chain were prepared by radical polymerizations of the corresponding LC and non-LC acrylates. It was demonstrated that polymerization is useful for the LC orientation and expands the LC temperature range. In addition, these mesogenic ferrocenes form a complex with tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) to give spin labeled molecules simply by mixing the ferrocenyl compounds with TCNE in the solid state at ambient temperature.     

A new reverse mode light shutter from silica-dispersed liquid crystals

Nanoparticle dispersions in liquid crystalline materials at low concentrations allow both investigating the formation of defects in liquid crystal (LC) and enhancing the light-scattering properties of LC optical devices. Reverse mode LC dispersions are LC devices, which look like transparent in their OFF state, when no electric field is applied, and opaque in their ON state. In this paper, a new reverse mode device, formed by a dispersion of a LC mixture in a silica nanoparticle crosslinked network, is presented. The morphology and the electro-optical properties of these silica nanoparticle/LC composites were investigated for two different LC mixtures with a negative dielectric anisotropy. The observed transmittances and relaxation times were found to depend strongly on the silica amount and chemical–physical properties of LC used in the sample preparation.     

Vitrification and water induced crystallization of zinc(II) dodecylbenzene sulphonate

Crystallization of zinc(II) dodecyl benzene sulphonate has been suppressed by either the removal of water of hydration or the rapid cooling of the compound from the liquid crystalline state. The anisotropic structure is preserved in the solid state when the hydrated compound in the LC phase is rapidly quenched, while removal of the water of hydration at temperatures in or above the LC phase and the subsequent slow cooling produces a stable isotropic structure.     

聚吡咯衍生物的合成及液晶性能

系统论述了新型导电功能性液晶聚合物3-和N-液晶基元取代聚吡咯的合成和液晶行为。指出通过化学氧化聚合、电化学氧化聚合和脱卤缩合聚合可以获得液晶性聚吡咯衍生物。它们均显示热致液晶行为，且多数呈现近晶液晶相，少数呈现向列液晶相，有些具有2种近晶相，有些具有单变液晶性。N-液晶基元取代聚吡咯比3-位取代聚吡咯具有较高的液晶稳定性。较长的亚甲基间隔和极性的介晶基团能够使N-取代聚吡咯具有较大的液晶微区和稳定的液晶相。N-取代液晶聚吡咯在摩擦力的作用下还可以诱发单轴取向。这种热致液晶性聚吡咯衍生物的研究成功有希望克服聚吡咯难以成型加工的巨大障碍。     

Influence of a liquid crystalline block on the microdomain structure of block copolymers

We report on the phase behavior and microdomain structure of two types of diblock copolymers containing a liquid crystal (LC) block joined to a flexible coil block. Consideration of the symmetry groups of the liquid crystalline phases and of the block copolymer microdomain structures provides a rationale for predicting the possible types of liquid crystalline block copolymer morphologies. Both previously reported and newly discovered structural types are identified. Possible organizational schemes are developed for the mesogens and periodic disclination defects with respect to the intermaterial dividing surfaces separating the liquid crystalline and flexible coil domains. The first type of copolymer investigated has a rod-like LC block whereas the second type copolymer has a side chain LC block. Five different rod-coil diblocks based on poly(hexyl isocyanate-b-styrene) P(HIC-b-S) were synthesized by anionic polymerization. Wavy lamellae, zig-zag and arrowhead microdomain morphologies corresponding to smectic-C and smectic-O structures were observed depending on the composition. These layered phases have the director (PHIC chain axis) tilted at various orientations with respect to the layer normal. Side-chain LC diblocks based on functionalized poly(isoprene-b-styrene) P(I-b-S) were also investigated. These polymers were synthesized using polymer analogous chemistry from P(I-b-S) precursors. Three different mesogenic groups were attached to the PI blocks: one based on biphenyl benzoate and two based on azobenzene. The microdomain structures found for the functionalized poly(isoprene side-chain LC-b-styrene) P(ILC-b-S) diblocks are typical of traditional coil-coil diblocks (lamellae and cylinders). However, these morphologies possess an additional smectic layering of the mesogens within the microdomains of the LC block. In the case of the rod-coil diblocks, the transformation from an initially isotropic state to the final microphase separated solid state occurs via nematic and then smectic liquid crystalline states, whereas for the side-chain LC-coil cases, the microphase separation transition occurs prior to development of orientational order. The long-range microdomain order of LC block-coil block copolymers can extend over very large distances due to the influence of the orientational ordering of the LC block.     

Structural changes in discotic samples during transition from crystal to discotic mesophase as revealed by electron microscopy and diffraction

Classical methods of structural analysis cannot be applied to liquid crystals because higher order reflections disappear during the transition from crystal to liquid crystal due to the reduction in long range orientational and translational correlations. However, in order to relate physical properties to the molecular architecture, it is essential to have information about molecular positions and orientations in the crystalline state as well as in the liquid crystalline state. In this work, the transition from crystalline to liquid crystalline phase is carefully monitored and the relationship between the original lattice and the new molecular positions found using electron diffraction. In addition to this, a new high resolution electron-microscopic technique is described in which the positions of molecules in the crystalline and the quenched discotic phase are directly imaged and the defects observed in the crystalline and LC phase compared and quantitatively analysed.     

Laser-induced orientational change of nematic liquid crystalline molecules mediated by photochromic reactions of surface azobenzenes

The alignment of nematic liquid crystalline (LC) molecules with respect to the LC cell surface was regulated between the homeotropic (H) state and the parallel (P) state by the photochromic trans—cis isomerization of surface-attached azobenzene (Az) moieties. By bringing the angular-selective photoreaction into the system, the orientational order in the P state was significantly improved to attain a universal orientational axis over the entire irradiated area, which was rotatable and erasable photochemically. Laser pulse experiments revealed that the allignment relaxation time τ was reduced from 1000 to 30 ms by increasing the pulse intensity from 10 to 20 mJ cm⁻². Strong coupling between the LC and Az molecules was indicated.     

聚甲基丙烯酸-对-甲氧基偶氮苯烷氧基酯的合成及柔性间隔基对液晶行为的影响

通过甲基丙烯酸钾盐与溴化物的反应合成了一系列柔性间隔基长度不同的甲基丙烯酸 对 甲氧基偶氮苯烷氧基酯（ＰＭＡＡＺＯｎ,ｎ＝２,３,４,５,６）,然后聚合成相应的聚合物．用１Ｈ ＮＭＲ和ＩＲ表征了聚合物的结构,ＧＰＣ测定了分子量,ＤＳＣ和偏光显微镜观测了液晶高分子的相行为和织构．研究了间隔基长度对织构、相变和热力学性质的影响,观测到聚合物的ＴＮＩ随间隔基的长度变化表现出的奇偶效应．