Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 124, Issue 1, Pages 874-885Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b09326
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- DST, India [SR-WOS-A-CS-26-2017]
- IISER Mohali
- DST-SERB, India [NPDF/2016/000560]
- CSIR [02(0311)/17/EMR-II]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11774070]
- Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Plan [2017A030313036]
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We have investigated two new series of unsymmetrical four-ring bent-core molecules with methylated azobenzene wings exhibiting nematic mesophase. The difference between the two series was in the relative position of the methyl (-CH3) substituent with respect to the azo (-N=N-) linkage in the molecule. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis unravels significant insights into the spatial molecular arrangement and molecular stacking interactions of these bent-core systems. The materials were able to show photoswitching behavior and photomasking effect in the liquid-crystalline state via nematic to isotropic (order to disorder) transition when illuminated with UV light. In solid state, the materials exhibit photochromism upon UV light exposure. One of the representative compounds (2/12) was studied to observe the optically enhanced Freedericksz transition (FT) effect stimulated by UV light intensity. A prototype of phase grating has also been devised based upon the observed FT-enhanced effect that has a prospect in certain photonic devices of dynamic and reversible light manipulation.
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