Journal
LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 176-183Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.846424
Keywords
chiral chain; lactate unit; TGBA phase; re-entrancy; TGBC phase
Funding
- Grant Agency of the Czech Republic [P204/11/0723, CSF 13-14133S]
- ASCR [M100101211]
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We have prepared and studied a series of rod-like liquid crystalline compounds with the molecular core laterally substituted by bromine atom and with the lactate unit in the chiral terminal chain. Microscopic observation under the polarising microscope, x-ray and dielectric spectroscopy results enable us to establish the TGBA-SmA-TGBA(RE)-TGBC phase sequence. The presence of the re-entrant TGBA phase below the regular SmA phase, found for three homologues, is quite uncommon. Results are discussed and compared with the previously studied compounds with regular phase sequences.
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