Asymmetrically Fluorinated Phenyl 4-biphenylcarboxylate Motifs as a Design Principle for Enantiotropic Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals.

Hiroyuki Matsukizono, Koichiro Hayashi, Keiko Kojima, Yasushi Okumura, Hirotsugu Kikuchi

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Hiroyuki MatsukizonoInstitute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan.

Koichiro HayashiInterdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Science, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan.

Keiko KojimaInstitute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3498-3140

Yasushi OkumuraInstitute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4804-8065

Hirotsugu KikuchiInstitute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan.

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JSPS KAKENHI JP23H00303JSPS KAKENHI JP23K04537JSPS KAKENHI JP23K17366JSPS KAKENHI JP23K26721

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Understanding the molecular structures that exhibit ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) phases during both heating and cooling processes, i.e., enantiotropic FLC phases, remains a significant challenge. In this study, nine analogs based on a fluorinated phenyl 4-biphenylcarboxylate backbone are designed, and their FLC properties are evaluated. Of these, eight analogs exhibit enantiotropic FLC phases. One analog containing the 2-fluorobenzoate unit and a cyano terminal exhibits an enantiotropic ferroelectric nematic (N

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enantiotropicferroelectric liquid crystalferroelectric nematicferroelectric smectic

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PMID42172002

DOI10.1002/advs.75740

PMCPMC13335911

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