期刊
ACTA POLYMERICA SINICA
卷 54, 期 9, 页码 1343-1354出版社
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.11777/j.issn1000-3304.2023.23031
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Mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymers (MJLCPs); Lamellar liquid crystalline phase; Columnar liquid crystalline phase; Sheet-like molecule; Rod-like molecule
This study aims to manipulate the molecular shapes and phase structures of mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymers (MJLCPs). By designing MJLCP 1P with flexible benzene-benzyl ester-benzene units, a lamellar liquid crystalline phase with sheet-like conformation at low temperatures and a columnar liquid crystalline phase with rod-like conformation at high temperatures were achieved. This work successfully manipulated the molecular shapes and phase structures of the MJLCP, providing a new approach to tune the molecular shapes and phase structures of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers.
Aiming at manipulating the molecular shapes and phase structures of mesogen-jacketed liquidcrystalline polymers (MJLCPs) polymers, we designed a new MJLCP 1P containing the flexible benzene-benzyl ester-benzene units in its side-chains and another MJLCP 2P as reference containing the rigid benzene-ester-benzene units. 2P renders extremely stable lamellar liquid crystalline phase probably with sheet-like conformation. However, 1P forms lamellar liquid crystalline phase at the low-temperature range and columnar liquid crystalline phase at the high-temperature range, probably with sheet-like and rod-like conformations, respectively. We also proposed the mechanisms for transitions of molecular shapes and phase structures of 1P: at the low temperature range, the benzene-benzyl ester-benzene units mainly adopt the tans conformation and hence the side-chains behave like flexible rod-like mesogens, leading to the sheet-like molecules and their further lamellar packing; at the high temperature range, the benzene-benzyl ester-benzene units mainly adopt the gauche conformation and thus increases their jacketing effect on the main-chain, generating rod-like molecules and further columnar packing. In this work, through incorporating the flexible connecting units, we successfully manipulated the molecular shapes and phase structures of a MJLCP. This work will pave a way to tune molecular shapes and phase structures of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers.
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