Tuning the electro-optic and viscoelastic properties of ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials

Properties of Antiferroelectric Mixtures Differing in the Amount of Added Racemate

“…The first orthoconics with antiferroelectric properties that were not dimers of two compounds were In many applications, liquid crystalline mixtures are used because single compounds are insufficient to obtain the desired properties [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. It has been shown that the properties of their binary mixtures can be predicted by using mixtures of two liquid crystalline materials with the ferroelectric phase with previously known properties, such as viscoelastic properties [27,28]. Several dozen mixtures with excellent physicochemical and electro-optical properties have been prepared at the Military University of Technology Institute of Chemistry.…”

New Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Materials with Properties Suitable for Surface Stabilized and Deformed Helix Effects

“…After the ferroelectricity in liquid crystals was discovered in 1975 [1], many books and articles were written about synthesis, studies and application of new compounds having such properties [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Since then, many compounds have been synthesized and new materials on their basis were prepared and tested [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. FLCs are characterized by fast electro-optical response, low driving voltage and memory effects, which make them suitable candidates for many advanced applications, such as displays, gratings or sensors [22][23][24][25].…”