First symmetrical banana compounds exhibiting SmAP(R) mesophase and unique transition between two orthogonal polar phases

Kinga Gomola; Lingfeng Guo; Ewa Gorecka; Damian Pociecha; Jozef Mieczkowski; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe

doi:10.1039/b912150a

First symmetrical banana compounds exhibiting SmAP(R) mesophase and unique transition between two orthogonal polar phases

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Nov 21:(43):6592-4. doi: 10.1039/b912150a. Epub 2009 Sep 14.

Authors

Kinga Gomola¹, Lingfeng Guo, Ewa Gorecka, Damian Pociecha, Jozef Mieczkowski, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe

Affiliation

¹ Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-S8-42, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.

PMID: 19865660
DOI: 10.1039/b912150a

Abstract

Novel banana-shaped liquid crystals with stilbene bridges were synthesized. All presented materials exhibit the polarization-randomized non-tilted smectic phase (SmAP(R)) in a broad temperature range and the antiferroelectric non-tilted smectic phase (SmAP(A)) at room temperature.