A Smart Bent-Core Liquid Crystal to Write Chinese Characters

Yuan Ming Huang; Bao Gai Zhai; Qing Lan Ma

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.428-429.280

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A Smart Bent-Core Liquid Crystal to Write Chinese Characters

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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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Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 428-429)

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January 2010

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Yuan Ming Huang, Bao Gai Zhai, Qing Lan Ma

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Bent-Core Liquid Crystal, Chinese Character, Self-Assembly, Smart Materials

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