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Physical Properties of Polar Bis-Tolane Liquid Crystals

Shin-Tson Wu, Chain-Shu Hsu¹, Ya-Yun Chuang¹ and Han-Bin Cheng¹

(Received October 29, 1999; accepted for publication November 26, 1999)

Several cyano and fluoro bis-tolane liquid crystals were synthesized and their physical properties evaluated. Some of these highly conjugated liquid crystals possess birefringence larger than 0.5 in the visible region. Adding 10% of a binary bis-tolane mixture to a cholesteric display enhances the brightness by more than 20%.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/39/L38/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.39.L38

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