A smart bent-core liquid crystal to write Chinese characters

摘要：

We demonstrate that a bent-core liquid crystal 1,3phenylene-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.

关键词： Bent-core liquid crystal Chinese character Smart materials Self assembly

作者: Yuan Ming Huang Bao-gai Zhai Qing-lan Ma

作者单位: College of Physics & Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Yunnan 650092, China Modern Educational Technology Center, Yunnan Normal University, Yunnan 650092, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 International Symposium on Liquid Crystal Science and Technology(2009国际液晶科技研讨会)

会议地点: 昆明

会议语种:英文

页码: 280-283

在线出版日期: 2009-08-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）