Journal
LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 1024-1034Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2018.1550819
Keywords
Blue phase; liquid crystal; azobenzene; bent-shaped molecules; light sensitive; electro-optical performances
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51333001, 51373024, 51473020, 61370048]
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A series of light-responsive azo-oxadiazole-based bent-shaped molecules was synthesised and characterised. Their effects as dopants on the blue phases (BPs) range of the chiral nematic liquid crystal (N*LC) matrix and light-responsive properties including the photo-inducing change of UV absorption properties, photo-adjusting the BP structure as well as the temperature range were investigated. It was found that the azo-oxadiazole-based bent-shaped molecules with branched terminal had better miscibility in LC host than the molecules with straight terminal, and that increasing the length of rigid core of bent-shaped molecules will greatly improve the effect of widening the BP temperature range. [GRAPHICS]
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