Banana-Shaped Liquid Crystals with Two Oligosiloxane End-Groups: Field-Induced Switching of Supramolecular Chirality
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Abstract
The first bent core mesogen carrying branched oligosiloxane units at both ends was synthesized and investigated with polarized light microscopy, DSC, X-ray diffraction of well aligned samples, and electrooptical methods. Two different antiferroelectric switching liquid crystalline phases were found. Both can be regarded as modulated smectic phases in which the molecules have extremely large tilt angles. In both mesophases, the field-induced switching takes place by rotation around the molecular long axes. This field-induced reorientation switches the layer chirality. The transition between the two mesophases is associated with a change of the tilt direction from synclinic to anticlinic. The synclinic high-temperature phase is an obliquelike ribbon phase whereas the anticlinic low-temperature phase represents a sinusoidal undulated layer structure (SmCAPA). It is proposed that the phase transition from the ribbon phase to the undulated layer structure is mainly driven by the change of the interlayer correlation.
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