X-ray and dielectric spectroscopy studies of chiral ferroelectric liquid crystals with keto group

Abstract

Series of ferroelectric liquid crystals with the keto group attached to the molecule core and one lactate group as the chiral centre have been studied by X-ray and dielectric spectroscopy. The thickness of smectic layers and the average distance between the long axes of neighboring molecules increases with increase of both chains. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.