Synthesis of New U-Shaped Azobenzene Liquid Crystals for Photoswitching Properties

• Main Authors: Lutfor, M. R., Sarkar, Shaheen M., M. M., Yusoff, Kumar, Sandeep, Tschierske, Carsten
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2015
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/11158/1/Synthesis%20of%20New%20U-Shaped%20Azobenzene%20Liquid%20Crystals%20for%20Photoswitching%20Properties.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/11158/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5RA12705J

A new series of liquid crystalline compounds comprising a U-shaped unit as central core incorporating azobenzene in the side arms and having terminal alkene functional groups, is synthesized and characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarized-light optical microscopy (POM), X-ray...