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Weak Forces for the Growth of Smectic-F Liquid Crystal

 

作者: D.M. Potukuchi,   G.Padmaja Rani,   M. Srinivasulu,   V.G.K.M. Pisipati,  

 

期刊: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals  (Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期: Volume 319, issue 1  

页码: 19-29

 

ISSN:1058-725X

 

年代: 1998

 

DOI:10.1080/10587259808045644

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

关键词: 120.m compounds of n0.m series;smectic-F;miscibility studies;phase diagram;Van der Walls' forces

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

N(p-n-dodecyloxybenzylidene)p-n-alkylanilines, viz., 120.mcompounds ofnO.mseries, form= 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 are synthesised and characterised by Polarised Thermal Microscopy (TM) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). These compounds are found to exhibit 2D Bond-Orientationally (BO) ordered smectic-F liquid crystal phase with shift distortion along with orthogonal smectic-A, -B(cryst) phases. The intermediate members of the compounds of 120.mseries (m< 10) are found to exhibit orthogonal smectic phases along with the tilted phases, while the higher homologues (m> 10) show the tilted bond-orientational smectic phases only. The miscibility studies for the confirmation of smectic-F phase through binary (120.12 + 100.14) phase diagram, suggests the possibility for the occurrence of smectic-F phase down towards ambient temperatures. The smectic-G phase melting temperature,TFGis found to depress at lower and higher concentrations (x), while smectic-F phase clearing temperatureTIFremains constant with the concentration. The thermal span of smectic-F phase is found to depend on the chemical potential (represented by the mole fractionx) in the (T, x) phase diagram. The cubic fit in the vicinity of lower/higher concentrations, qualitatively infers the weak nature of Van der Walls' molecular forces for the growth of pseudo-hexagonal packed quasi-2-D BO orderedSFliquid crystal with a poor registry of positional correlations.

 

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