Journal
LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 512-522Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2018.1512166
Keywords
Star-shaped; pyridinium salts; nematic phase; electrical properties
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51273035]
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Series of novel star-shaped liquid crystals containing [1,1MODIFIER LETTER PRIME-biphenyl]-4,4MODIFIER LETTER PRIME-diyl diisonicotinate mesogens with various counterions (Br-, B-SO3-,C-SO3-,H2PO4-, BF4-) have been synthesized and characterized, which display a nematic phase. The molecular structures of the liquid crystals, thereof consisting of rod-like mesogens linked together by different long alkyl spacers to a small disc-like core of central benzene-1,3,5-triyl triisonicotinate, have been fully characterized by H-1 NMR. Their thermal and supramolecular organization behaviours have been studied by combining polarized optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and small-angle X-ray scattering. These investigations showed that the mesophase temperature range increased with increasing alkyl chain length and the clearing point decreased with increase of anion size. These star-shaped liquid crystals have a long and ordered molecular structure, the electron delocalization of the pi-pi stacking conjugation effect and the electrostatic attraction of ionic make them have good ferroelectric properties and ionic conductivity properties. The interest in preparing ionic liquid crystal with a nematic phase lies in the technological applications as it is well known that the nematic phase has the highest fluidity of all liquid crystalline phases and hence the possibility to align it by applying an external electric/magnetic field, commonly used in electro-optical devices. [GRAPHICS] .
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