Liquid crystal oligomers: going beyond dimers |
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| Authors: | Corrie T Imrie Peter A Henderson Guan-Yeow Yeap |
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| Institution: | 1. Chemistry, School of Natural and Computing Sciences , University of Aberdeen , Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK c.t.imrie@abdn.ac.uk;3. Chemistry, School of Natural and Computing Sciences , University of Aberdeen , Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK;4. Liquid Crystal Research Laboratory, School of Chemical Sciences , Universiti Sains Malaysia , Penang, Malaysia |
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| Abstract: | This review focuses on structure-property relationships in liquid crystal oligomers, which consist of molecules containing two or more mesogenic units linked via flexible spacers essentially in a linear fashion and so does not consider, for example, liquid crystal dendrimers and tetrapodes. Previous reviews have tended to focus mainly on liquid crystal dimers in which just two mesogenic units are interconnected by a single spacer. By contrast, this review is largely devoted to higher oligomers such as liquid crystal trimers and tetramers containing three or four mesogenic units connected by two or three spacers, respectively. |
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| Keywords: | liquid crystal oligomers dimers trimers intercalated smectic phases |
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