Fluorination in core-only calamitic liquid crystals: how many and where should they go?

2025/01/01 by Jacob G. Rothera, Reem Bazzi, Lara K. Watanabe +4 · 1 voice
Materials Science · #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d5tc02621k

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Crystallization temperatures as low as 130 °C were obtained for strongly fluorescent conjugated calamitic liquid crystals by selective fluorination and without the aid of flexible side-chains.

Citations

• Fluorine in liquid crystal design for display applications

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