New ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials with an azo group in the molecular core |
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Authors: | Miroslav Ka par Alexej Bubnov V ra Hamplov Slavomí r Pirkl Milada Glogarov |
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Affiliation: | a Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republicb University of Pardubice, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | Six series of new liquid crystalline materials with an azo group (N=N) located in different parts of the mesogenic core of the molecule have been synthesized and their physical properties studied. The chiral segments of these materials are based on alkoxypropionate or alkyllactate units. It has been found that lateral methyl substitution on a phenyl ring in the molecular core disturbs the packing of the molecules. As a result smectic phases disappear and the phase transition temperatures decrease. In addition, shifting the N=N group closer to the chiral centre of the molecule leads to the disappearance of the ferroelectric SmC* phase. For the compounds which show the ferroelectric SmC* phase, the temperature dependence of the spontaneous polarization, the spontaneous tilt angle, the helix pitch length and the complex permittivity has been studied. The effect of shifting the azo group in the molecular core on the physical properties is discussed. |
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