Polar phases in chiral thiobenzoate liquid crystals

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1996

Authors

Carvalho, PS (Author) FCUP; Glogarova, M (Author) Other; Chaves, MR (Author) FCUP; Nguyen, HT (Author) Other; Destrade, C (Author) Other; Rouillon, JC (Author) Other; Sarmento, S (Author) Other; Ribeiro, MJ (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Liquid Crystals

Vol. 21

Pages: 511-521

ISSN: 0267-8292

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Chemical sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-001-DM5

DOI: 10.1080/02678299608032859

Abstract (EN): By dielectric measurements, the temperature scan method and studies of optical hysteresis loops, the phase sequences have been elucidated for two new compounds from a series of homologues containing a thiobenzoate group with a fluoro substituent in the first benzene ring (denoted nFHTBBM7*). Both compounds (n = 11 and n = 12) exhibit antiferroelectric (S-CA*) ferroelectric (S-C*) and several ferrielectric (S-CFI) phases, as well as the (S-C alpha*) phase. Also, in the compound 11FHTBBM7*, a metastable ferrielectric phase may appear in the temperature range of the antiferroelectric phase. The dielectric relaxation study revealed contributions to the dielectric constant from several modes detected in the temperature range studied. The properties of the relaxation modes and the phase transition sequences of the two compounds have been compared with those of the homologues with n = 9 and n = 10 studied previously.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11