Effect of lateral substitution by fluorine and bromine atoms in ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials containing a 2‐alkoxypropanoate unit |
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Authors: | Miroslav Kašpar Věra Hamplová Zuzana Málková Slavomír Pirkl Milada Glogarová |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Physics , Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic;2. University of Pardubice , Studentská 95, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | Two homologous series of ferroelectric liquid crystalline compounds with 2‐alkoxypropanoate chiral unit containing biphenyl benzoate core laterally substituted by fluorine and bromine have been synthesized and studied. All compounds possess the ferroelectric smectic C* phase over a broad temperature range. For bromine‐substituted compounds values of spontaneous polarization reach high values up to 250 nC cm?2. The effects of the lateral substitution on the phenyl ring far from the chiral centre by methyl and methoxy groups, fluorine, chlorine and bromine atoms on mesomorphic properties and on values of the spontaneous polarization are discussed. |
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