作者:Nils Olsson、Martin Schröder、Siegmar Diele、Gunnar Andersson、Ingolf Dahl、Bertil Helgee、Lachezar Komitov
DOI:10.1039/b615541c
日期:——
A new series of dimeric chiral antiferroelectric materials using a trisiloxane as the central connecting linker and having fluorinated tails has been synthesized together with their corresponding monomers. Spacer lengths of 3–6 and 11 methylene groups were used. As a comparison to see the effect of the siloxane length on the phase behaviour, one dimer with a tetrasiloxane core was also synthesized. Monomers with 3–6 carbons in the spacer showed just orthogonal smectic phases and only the long 11 carbon spacer 7F4PPB11 showed tilted phases in a very similar way to what was found in the unfluorinated monomers previously studied. All trisiloxanes showed a high temperature antiferroelectric phase and those with a spacer length of 4 or more carbons also showed one or two columnar antiferroelectric phases when decreasing the temperature. The spontaneous polarisation Ps was high, especially in the columnar phases where it ranged from 800–1200 nC cm–2 and upward. The apparent tilt angles were exceptionally high, above 45 degrees for all materials studied. In accordance with the trend described previously, the tetrasiloxane containing dimer showed a ferroelectric phase at high temperature. But in this case the columnar phase was found to be antiferroelectric. Hence, the general idea that trisiloxane cores promote antiferroelectricity and tetrasiloxanes promote the ferroelectric phase is still correct also for these materials in the SmC* phase, but not for the columnar phase. It can also be noted that the phase separation between siloxane, fluorinated tail and mesogenic parts of the molecules was so high that the material became columnar on lowering the temperature.
我们合成了一系列新的二聚手性反铁电材料,这些材料使用三硅氧烷作为中心连接物,并具有氟化尾部及其相应的单体。使用的间隔长度为 3-6 和 11 个亚甲基。为了比较硅氧烷长度对相行为的影响,还合成了一种以四硅氧烷为核心的二聚体。间隔碳数为 3-6 个的单体只显示出正交的平滑相,只有 11 个碳的长间隔碳 7F4PPB11 显示出倾斜相,与之前研究的无氟单体非常相似。所有三硅氧烷都显示出高温反铁电相,而那些具有 4 个或更多碳间隔长度的三硅氧烷在降低温度时也显示出一个或两个柱状反铁电相。自发极化 Ps 很高,尤其是在柱状相中,其范围在 800-1200 nC cm-2 及以上。所有研究材料的视倾角都非常高,超过 45 度。与之前描述的趋势一致,含有四硅氧烷的二聚体在高温下呈现铁电相。但在这种情况下,柱状相被发现是反铁电相。因此,三硅氧烷核心促进反铁电性,而四硅氧烷促进铁电相的一般观点对于这些处于 SmC* 相的材料来说仍然是正确的,但对于柱状相来说并不正确。我们还注意到,分子中硅氧烷、氟化尾部和介电部分之间的相分离程度非常高,以至于在降低温度时材料会变成柱状。