Coates 2 Smectic Mesogens

The synthesized GNPs have been dispersed into a variety of host LCs and comprehensively characterized by multiple techniques. For example, the transition temperatures of the GNPs coated with mesogen 1 (Scheme 4.1) in 4 -n-octyl-4-cyano-biphenyl (8CB), which exhibits nematic and smectic A phases, were determined as a function of concentration by DSC, as shown in Table 4.1 [46]. For a 5 wt% mixture of 1 coated GNPs in 8CB, by using polarized optical microscope... 

Charge carrier mobility measurements of the mesogens 9 and 10 (Figure 10) were made in different states the spin-coated films, the films that were slowly cooled from the isotropic to the smectic phase, and the films after crosslinking. Whereas alignment improved the field effect mobility, the photopolymerization reaction reduced the values of 2 x 10" and 5 x 10 cm s" approximately five times. ... 

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