Electrical and thermodynamical characterization of thermotropic liquid crystal
F. SESIGUR1,
D. SAKAR1,*
,
O. YASA-SAHIN1,
F. KURUOGLU2,
F. CAKAR1,
M. MOGULKOC2,
M. CALISKAN2,
O. CANKURTARAN1,
M. SERIN2,
B. BILGIN-ERAN1
Affiliation
- Yildiz Technical University, Department of Chemistry, Davutpasa Campus, 34220, Esenler, Istanbul, Turkey
- Yildiz Technical University, Department of Physics, Davutpasa Campus, 34220, Esenler, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract
The thermodynamic interactions, sorption properties and electrical conductivity measurements of thermotropic liquid
crystalline compound, (S)-5-dodecyloxy-2-[[[4-(2-methylbutoxy) phenyl]imino]methyl]phenol (DMPIMP) are experimentally
investigated in this work. The retention diagrams of trace amount of solvents such as benzene, propylbenzene,
chlorobenzene were passed through the gas chromatography column loaded with DMPIMP coated on Chromosorb W. The
retention diagrams of the solvents on DMPIMP were plotted by means of specific retention volumes,
0
g V at the emperatures in K between 33 and 383 by inverse gas chromatography. Flory-Huggins liquid crystal-solvent interaction parameter,
12 χ , equation of state liquid crystal-solvent interaction parameter,
12 χ , the weight fraction activity coefficient,
1 and effective exchange energy parameter, eff X and molar enthalpies related to the DMPIMP-solvent systems were
obtained. The DMPIMP films were also characterized by means of its electrical properties depending on doping effect for
the films having two different dopant concentrations such as 25 and 50 percent of tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate..
Keywords
Thermotropic liquid crystal, Inverse gas chromatography, Interaction parameters, Electrical conductivity.
Citation
F. SESIGUR, D. SAKAR, O. YASA-SAHIN, F. KURUOGLU, F. CAKAR, M. MOGULKOC, M. CALISKAN, O. CANKURTARAN, M. SERIN, B. BILGIN-ERAN, Electrical and thermodynamical characterization of thermotropic liquid crystal, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 5, 5, May 2011, pp.572-576 (2011).
Submitted at: April 22, 2011
Accepted at: May 31, 2011