首页|A smart bent-core liquid crystal to write Chinese characters

A smart bent-core liquid crystal to write Chinese characters

扫码查看
We demonstrate that a bent-core liquid crystal l,3-phenylene-bis(4-butoxybenzylidene amine) can write the Chinese character A, which means a person in English, when the bent-core compound gets cooled from its isotropic phase. The polarized optical microscopic graphs illustrate that the bent-core molecules are able to self-assemble themselves into the Chinese character either in a sequential order or in a reverse order. Our results reveal that bent-core molecules have the capability of being smart materials.

bent-core liquid crystalchinese charactersmart materialsself assembly

Yuan Ming Huang、Bao-gai Zhai、Qing-Ian Ma

展开 >

College of Physics & Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Yunnan 650092, China

Modern Educational Technology Center, Yunnan Normal University, Yunnan 650092, China

2010

Key engineering materials

Key engineering materials

ISSN:1013-9826
年,卷(期):2010.428/429
  • 4