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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-5-15
pubmed:abstractText
A series of liquid-crystalline polysiloxanes synthesized by cholest-5-en-3-ol (3beta)-10-undecenoate and 4'-octanoyloxy-biphenyl-4-yl 4-allyloxy-3-sulfo-benzoate were prepared in a one-step reaction with sulfonic acid group contents ranging between 0 and 2.73 wt %. All the polymers displayed smectic mesophases with a large temperature range for the mesophases. With an increase of sulfonic acid containing mesogens in the polymers, the temperature of the glass transition did not change greatly, while the temperature of the clear point decreased. The hydrogen-bonding mesogen aggregates in the domains disturb the liquid-crystalline molecular mobility and orientation, leading to a decrease in temperature from the mesophase to the isotropic transition. Unlike the polymers containing lower sulfonic acid mesogens, some polymers showed a dendritic texture of the SmB* phase, indicating that the sulfonic mesogens enhanced the rigid moieties of the supermolecular structure of the liquid-crystalline phases. All the polymers displayed sharp and strong peaks at low angles around 2theta approximately 2.6 degrees and broad peaks at wide angles around 2theta approximately 17 degrees in X-ray measurements. The intensity of the strong peak at low angles in the X-ray profiles decreased with an increase of sulfonic acid mesogens in the polymer systems.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0743-7463
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6385-90
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Effect of sulfonic acid containing mesogens on liquid-crystalline behavior of polysiloxane-based polymers.
pubmed:affiliation
The Research Centre for Molecular Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, People's Republic of China. baoyanzhang@hotmail.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article