Pressure studies on two discotic liquid crystals |
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Authors: | V N Raja R Shashidhar S Chandrasekhár R E Boehm D E Martire |
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Affiliation: | (1) Raman Research Institute, 560 080 Bangalore, India;(2) Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 20057 Washington DC, USA |
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Abstract: | Pressure-temperature diagrams have been studied for two discotic compounds, hexa-n-octyloxytriphenylene and hexa-n-decanoyloxytriphenylene, both of which exhibit the columnar (D) phase at atmospheric pressure. Two interesting results, common to both compounds, have been obtained: (a) in contrast to what is usually observed in liquid crystals of rod-like molecules, the columnar-isotropic (D-I) transition, which is enantiotropic at atmospheric pressure, becomes monotropic at high pressures; (b) dT/dP ≈ 0 for theD-I transition, implying that despite the drastic change in the molecular order at this transition, the associated volume change is extremely small. |
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Keywords: | Discotic liquid crystals columnar mesophase pressure studies phase diagrams |
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