Liquid crystal gelators with photo-responsive and AIE properties

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 2245-2253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Yu ◽  
Hui Chen ◽  
Xiang Shi ◽  
Pierre-Antoine Albouy ◽  
Jia Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Isotropic Phase ◽  
Aggregation Induced Emission ◽  
Smectic A ◽  
Smectic A Phase

trans-Cn-Chol present smectic A phase and photo-responsive SmA–isotropic phase transition, and their organogels exhibit aggregation-induced emission and photo-responsive gel–sol transition.

scholarly journals Optical Microscopy Observations and Construction of Dupin Cyclides at the Isotropic/Smectic A Phase Transition

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 4539
Author(s):  
Mikhael Halaby Macary ◽  
Gauthier Damême ◽  
Antoine Gibek ◽  
Valentin Dubuffet ◽  
Benoît Dupuy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Optical Microscopy ◽  
Smectic A ◽  
Polarized Microscopy ◽  
Smectic A Phase ◽  
Dupin Cyclides

In this work, we are interested in the nucleation of bâtonnets at the Isotropic/Smectic A phase transition of 10CB liquid crystal. Very often, these bâtonnets are decorated with a large number of focal conics. We present here an example of a bâtonnet obtained by optical crossed polarized microscopy in a frequently observed particular area of the sample. This bâtonnet presents bulges and one of them consists of a tessellation of ellipses. These ellipses are two by two tangent, one to each other, and their confocal hyperbolas merge at the apex of the bâtonnet. We propose a numerical simulation with Python software to reproduce this tiling of ellipses as well as the shape of the smectic layers taking the well-known shape of Dupin cyclides within this particular bâtonnet area.

Structure and Thermal Behaviour of a Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polyimide (PI-LC)

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Tanaka ◽  
M Konda ◽  
M Miyamoto ◽  
Y Kimura ◽  
A Yamaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Thermal Analysis ◽  
Nematic Phase ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Isotropic Phase ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Smectic A ◽  
Smectic C ◽  
Smectic A Phase

Anomalous solid structures formed by a thermotropic liquid crystalline polyimide (PI-LC) were investigated by thermal analysis, polarized light microscopy and x-ray analysis. It was revealed that PI-LC should undergo a phase transition from the crystalline to the isotropic phase through the smectic or nematic phase in the temperature range 277–300 °C. The PI-LC filament extruded at 280 °C, at which temperature the polymer was in liquid crystalline phase, was formed to have a structure similar to the smectic C phase, while that extruded and melt-drawn at 310 °C, at which temperature the polymer was in the isotropic phase, had a structure similar to the smectic A phase.

Isotropic to smectic-A phase transition in taper-shaped liquid crystal

2021 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 115539
Author(s):  
Bhaskar Chandra Khan ◽  
Prabir K. Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Smectic A ◽  
Smectic A Phase
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