Kim Byeong-Cheon, Walker Martin, Jo Seong-Yong, Wilson Mark R, Takezoe Hideo, Choi Suk-Won
Department of Advanced Materials Engineering for Information and Electronics (BK21Plus), Kyung Hee University Yongin-shi Gyeonggi-do 17104 Korea
Department of Chemistry, Durham University Lower Mountjoy, South Road DH13LE UK.
RSC Adv. 2018 Jan 3;8(3):1292-1295. doi: 10.1039/c7ra11589j. eCollection 2018 Jan 2.
We prepared a homologous series of achiral bent-core (BC) liquid crystals with different terminal alkoxy chain lengths, (BC-), and evaluated the helical twisting power (HTP) of the BC- doped in a cholesteric liquid crystal. The BC- molecules with longer terminal chains showed larger HTPs. To interpret this striking phenomenon, a stochastic dynamics simulation was performed to determine the distribution of the chirality order parameters () for BC molecules with = 8-16. The distribution of for each simulated conformation varied with , and the variation tendency was different for molecules with < 12 and > 12 despite the linear relationship between HTP and in the experiment.
我们制备了一系列具有不同末端烷氧基链长的非手性弯曲核(BC)液晶(BC-),并评估了掺杂在胆甾相液晶中的BC-的螺旋扭曲力(HTP)。具有较长末端链的BC-分子表现出更大的HTP。为了解释这一显著现象,进行了随机动力学模拟,以确定n = 8-16的BC分子的手性序参数(S)的分布。每个模拟构象的S分布随n而变化,尽管在实验中HTP与n呈线性关系,但n < 12和n > 12的分子的变化趋势不同。