Synthesis of diphenyl-diacetylene-based nematic liquid crystals and their high birefringence properties
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Abstract
We synthesized two series of diphenyl-diacetylene (DPDA)-based materials with alkoxy and alkyl tails of length m (DPDA–OCm and DPDA–Cm, respectively), and measured their nematic-phase birefringence (Δn) as a function of wavelength and temperature. We found that Δn decreases with an increase in m, possibly by a dilution effect of the low-Δn alkyl tail. Further, of the two series, Δn was found to be relatively higher in the DPDA–OCm materials, with the highest value of 0.4 obtained for DPDA–OC1 at 550 nm at 10 °C below the isotropic-to-nematic transition temperature. Further, we observed the temperature dependence for Δn, which is proportional to the order parameter (s). From extrapolation to s = 1 (the perfect orientation state), it is speculated that the DPDA–O moiety has the potential to afford a very large Δn of 0.9.
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