X-ray Diffraction and Miscibility Studies on the Origin of Antiferroelectric Structures

Abstract

X-ray diffraction and miscibility studies were conducted for homologous series of antiferroelectric MHPOBC and femoelectric MH/POBC liquid crystal molecules. From the X-ray analysis, we have found that n-C_6H_<13>-chain of MHPOBC more tilted from the molecular long axis than that of MH/POBC, indicating that the ester group next to the chiral carbon of MHPOBC affected to the unique conformational structure.