We controlled reflection colour of the glass-forming cholesteric liquid crystals over the whole visible region using the smectic liquid crystalline photochromic dopants on the basis of the different mechanism from the conventional helical twisting power change, which gave rise to full-colour recording and display materials at a lower additive concentration than that reported previously. We simply tethered multiple mesogenic azobenzene units to sugar alcohols to obtain effective dopants in which the intramolecular mesogenic moieties could adopt smectic-like alignments. The new dopants that featured linear sugar alcohol backbones exhibited increasingly stable smectic phases upon increasing the number of mesogenic groups in the molecule; a corresponding cyclic sugar alcohol derivative exhibited no such smectic phase. Addition of these smectic liquid crystalline dopants to the glass-forming cholesteric liquid crystalline material induced increasingly larger pitch shifts upon increasing the number of intramolecular mesogenic groups in the dopant. Dopants prepared from stereoisomeric sugar alcohol backbones provided similar liquid crystalline phases and induced similar pitch shifts after their addition to the cholesteric liquid crystals. The colour images recorded on the thin layer of the cholesteric liquid crystalline mixture were stabilized by fixing the cholesteric alignment into glassy states, which withstood heating at 70 °C.
我们通过基于与传统螺旋扭曲力变化不同的机制,使用层状液晶光致变色掺杂剂,控制
玻璃形成胆甾相液晶在整个可见光区域的反射颜色,从而在比先前报道的更低的掺杂浓度下实现了全彩色记录和显示材料。我们简单地将多个
偶氮苯介晶单元连接到糖醇上,得到了有效的掺杂剂,其中分子内介晶单元可以采取类似于层状的排列。这种新型掺杂剂具有线性糖醇骨架,随着分子中介晶基团数量的增加,展现出越来越稳定的层状相;而相应的环状糖醇衍
生物则不显示层状相。将这些层状液晶掺杂剂添加到
玻璃形成胆甾相液晶材料中,随着掺杂剂分子内介晶基团数量的增加,诱导了越来越大的螺距变化。从立体异构糖醇骨架制备的掺杂剂提供了相似的液晶相,并且在添加到胆甾相液晶后诱导了相似的螺距变化。记录在胆甾相液晶薄层上的彩色图像通过将胆甾相排列固定成
玻璃态而稳定,能够承受70°C的加热。