Preparation of polyimide alignment films with high photosensitivity and low solid content

Yu, Hailin; Zhu, Gang; Wang, Yinghan

doi:10.1080/02678292.2020.1799446

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“…Cinnamate-composed LC materials were mostly approved to be important in applications and exhibited nematogenic phases [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57]. In addition, the optical behavior of nematogenic materials was shown to be strongly enhanced by the inclusion of a lateral fluorine (F) atom.…”

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Synthesis, Optical and DFT Characterizations of Laterally Fluorinated Phenyl Cinnamate Liquid Crystal Non-Symmetric System

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A new laterally fluorinated unsymmetric liquid crystalline homologous series, based on cinnamate linkage, named 2-fluoro-4-(4-(alkoxy)phenyl)diazenyl)phenyl cinnamate (In), was synthesized and evaluated via different experimental and computational tools. The series had different terminal alkoxy-chain lengths with a lateral F atom in the meta position with respect to the azo moiety. The experimental mesomorphic and optical investigations were carried out using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarized optical microscopy (POM). Theoretical calculations and geometrical parameter predictions were conducted using the DFT program method at B3LYP/6-311G** level of theory. The results revealed that all the designed compounds exhibited the nematic (N) mesophase enantiotropically. The nematic stability and temperature range were impacted by the terminal alkoxy chain length. Compounds with the shortest chains (I6 and I8) showed a monotropic smectic A (SmA) phase, while the longest chain derivative, I16, possessed enantiotropic Sm A phase. Theoretical density functional theory (DFT) predictions were correlated with the practically observed data from the mesomorphic investigations. Data revealed that the terminal alkoxy and lateral F groups had an essential impact on the total energy of possible geometrical structures and their physical and thermal parameters.

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