A Smart Bent-Core Liquid Crystal to Write Chinese Characters |
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| Journal | Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 428 - 429) |
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| Volume | Advances in Liquid Crystals |
| Edited by | Yuan Ming Huang |
| Pages | 280-283 |
| DOI | 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.428-429.280 |
| Citation | Yuan Ming Huang et al., 2010, Key Engineering Materials, 428-429, 280 |
| Online since | January, 2010 |
| Authors | Yuan Ming Huang, Bao Gai Zhai, Qing Lan Ma |
| Keywords | Bent-Core Liquid Crystal, Chinese Character, Self-Assembly, Smart Material |
| Abstract | We demonstrate that a bent-core liquid crystal 1,3-phenylene-bis(4-butoxybenzylidene amine) can write the Chinese character 人, 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. |
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