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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 19, Issue 39, Pages 7208-7215Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b907907f
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- Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center (NSF MRSEC) [DMR-0213918]
- l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-07-MAPR-0020-02]
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The synthesis and characterization of a series of novel liquid-crystalline molecules containing a trifluoromethylphenyl core or a 2,3-bis(trifluoromethyl) phenyl core is described. All trifluoromethylphenyl-containing compounds (W530, W551, and W558) have mesomorphic properties while 2,3-bis(trifluoromethyl) phenyl-containing compounds (W555, W556, W557) are room-temperature crystals without mesophases. Thereafter, based on the chemical structure of W558, to pursue a mesogen with a large electroclinic effect in the SmA* phase for development into electromechanical actuators, a chiral smectic thiol-ene monomer (K0901) is synthesized and polymerized in organic solvents. The polymer is characterized by GPC, DSC, PLM, XRD and shows an expected I-SmA*-Glass phase sequence though the electroclinic effect is relatively small.
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