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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 138, 期 16, 页码 5283-5289出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13331
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- RSC's mobility grant
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
- Division of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE-SC-0001412]
- NSF [DMR-1410378]
- Ohio Research Scholars Program Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1410378] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The liquid crystal nonsymmetric dimer, 1-(4-butoxyazobenzene-4'-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobipheny1-4'-yl) hexane (CB6OABOBu), shows enantiotropic twist bend nematic, N-TB, and nematic, N, phases. The N-TB phase has been confirmed using polarized light microscopy, freeze fracture transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. The helicoidal pitch in the N-TB phase is 18 nm. The N-TB-N (T-NTBN) and N-I (T-NI) transition temperatures are reduced upon UV light irradiation, with the reduction in T-NTBN being much larger than that in T-NI. An isothermal, reversible N-TB-N transition may be driven photochemically. These observations are attributed to a trans-cis photoisomerization of the azobenzene fragment on UV irradiation, with the cis isomers stabilizing the standard nematic phase and the trans isomers stabilizing the N-TB phase. The dramatic changes in T-NTBN provide evidence that the transition between the normal nematic and twist bend nematic with spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry is crucially dependent on the shape of molecular dimers, which changes greatly during the trans cis isomerization.
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