Design of Siloxane Liquid Crystals Forming a De Vries SmA* Phase Auteur(s): Galli G., Reihmann M., Crudeli A., Chiellini E., Panarin Yu., Vij J., Blanc C., Lorman V., Olsson N. (Article) Publié: Molecular Crystals And Liquid Crystals, vol. 439 p.245/[2111]-257/[2123] (2005) Ref HAL: in2p3-00025729_v1 DOI: 10.1080/15421400590958089 WoS: 000230652000023 Exporter : BibTex | endNote 8 Citations Résumé: We designed and synthesized new SmA* liquid crystals with different molecular architectures based on the chiral mesogen MR11, which was unsubstituted, or attached at one end and at both ends of a trisiloxane segment in the monosubstituted MSi3-MR11 and disubstituted DSi3-MR11 siloxanes, respectively. We studied the critical divergence of the magnetic susceptibility by measurements of the induced tilt angle Θind at the SmA*–SmC* transition. While all three SmA* liquid crystals presented a de Vries character, this was quite distinctive for DSi3-MR11 for which the critical exponent γ = 1.87 was maximal. X-ray diffraction experiments confirmed that the SmA*–SmC* transition occurred with essentially no layer shrinkage. |