Journal
CRYSTALS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cryst9010018
Keywords
ionic liquids; liquid crystals; ionic liquid crystals; molecular orientational order; nuclear magnetic resonance
Funding
- Swedish Research Council VR
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [17-03-00057]
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We investigate conformational dynamics in the smectic A phase formed by the mesogenic ionic liquid 1-tetradecyl-3-methylimidazolium nitrate. Solid-state high-resolution C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra are recorded in the sample with the mesophase director aligned in the magnetic field of the NMR spectrometer. The applied NMR method, proton encoded local field spectroscopy, delivers heteronuclear dipolar couplings of each C-13 spin to its H-1 neighbours. From the analysis of the dipolar couplings, orientational order parameters of the C-H bonds along the hydrocarbon chain were determined. The estimated value of the molecular order parameter S is significantly lower compared to that in smectic phases of conventional non-ionic liquid crystals.
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