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Title: Existence of polar switching in the nematic and orthogonal smectic phases in novel four-ring bent-core compounds.
Authors: Turlapati, Srikanth
Khan, Raj Kumar
Ghosh, Sharmistha
Pramod, Tadapatri
Pratibha, R.
Rao, Nandiraju V S
Keywords: 12 months embargo
Issue Date: 7-Nov-2016
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Citation: Journal of Applied Physics, 2016, Vol. 120, p174101
Abstract: Bent-core liquid crystals have set the first example of forming polar superstructures from achiral molecules. Polar switching studies in smectic phases have revealed several exciting sub-phases which have never been observed in rod-like liquid crystals. In this study, mesomorphic and polar switching properties of three bent-core compounds belonging to a homologous series have been investigated using polarizing optical microscopy (POM), differential scanning calorimetry, XRD studies, electro-optics, and dielectric spectroscopy. These achiral, unsymmetrical four-ring bent-core liquid crystals with a polar fluoro substituent at one end and n-alkoxy chain at the other terminal end possess azo, ester, and imine linkages between the four phenyl rings and different lateral substituents. The compounds 16-F and 18-F exhibit orthogonal smectic phase with antiferroelectric polar order, and additionally, the compound 16-F exhibits a short range nematic phase with a polar order. The compound 7-F exhibits broad enantiotropic nematic mesomorphism without appearance of any smectic ordering at low temperature. The smectic and nematic phases were identified by their optical textures observed by POM. Distinct polarization current peaks under triangular wave voltage are observed for all the compounds in the entire mesophase range. Relaxation phenomena corresponding to polar associations of the molecules are observed in dielectric spectroscopy. The cybotactic nature of the nematic phase is established by the XRD and electro-optic studies of 16-F. Although it is rather difficult to form mesophase when the number of aromatic rings is reduced from five, we have successfully demonstrated the bent-core compounds with four-ring which exhibit orthogonal smectic phases as well as nematic mesomorphism with unusual cybotactic signature
Description: Open Access . This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6661
ISSN: 0021-8979
1089-7550(Online)
Alternative Location: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4966936
Copyright: 2016 American Institute of Physics.
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