Synthesis of diphenyl-diacetylene-based nematic liquid crystals and their high birefringence properties
作者:Yuki Arakawa、Shunpei Nakajima、Ryohei Ishige、Makoto Uchimura、Sungmin Kang、Gen-ichi Konishi、Junji Watanabe
DOI:10.1039/c2jm16002a
日期:——
We synthesized two series of diphenyl-diacetylene (DPDA)-based materials with alkoxy and alkyl tails of length m (DPDA–OCm and DPDA–Cm, respectively), and measured their nematic-phase birefringence (Δn) as a function of wavelength and temperature. We found that Δn decreases with an increase in m, possibly by a dilution effect of the low-Δn alkyl tail. Further, of the two series, Δn was found to be relatively higher in the DPDA–OCm materials, with the highest value of 0.4 obtained for DPDA–OC1 at 550 nm at 10 °C below the isotropic-to-nematic transition temperature. Further, we observed the temperature dependence for Δn, which is proportional to the order parameter (s). From extrapolation to s = 1 (the perfect orientation state), it is speculated that the DPDA–O moiety has the potential to afford a very large Δn of 0.9.
我们合成了两系列基于二苯二炔(DPDA)的材料,分别为具有不同长度的烷氧基和烷基尾(DPDA–OCm和DPDA–Cm),并测量它们在不同波长和温度下的向列相双折射率(Δn)。我们发现,随着m的增加,Δn呈下降趋势,这可能是由于低Δn烷基尾的稀释效应。此外,在两组材料中,DPDA–OCm材料的Δn相对较高,在接近各向同性到向列相转变温度的10°C时,DPDA–OC1在550 nm处的Δn达到了最高值0.4。此外,我们观察到了Δn的温度依赖性,它与有序参数(s)成正比。从对s = 1(完美取向状态)的外推来看,可以推测DPDA–O基团具有提供非常大的Δn(0.9)的潜力。