Thermo-morphological properties of the smectic C* mesophase in new chiral salicyaldimine liquid crystals

Abstract

Specific textures and their temperature transformations in large temperature interval for the chiral smectic C* mesophase of new liquid crystalline materials, synthesized by our group, have been investigated in detail. Temperature dependences of the pitch of helical structure of the smectic C* mesophase have been determined for these materials. (C) 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.