主催: 一般社団法人日本液晶学会
会議名: 2015年 日本液晶学会討論会
開催地: 東京工業大学 すずかけ台キャンパス
開催日: 2015/09/07 - 2015/09/09
We studied the molecular dynamics of chiral and achiral smectic liquid crystals by solid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (13C-NMR) spectroscopy with a Larmor frequency of 100 MHz. The chiral and achiral smectic liquid crystals used were S-4-(1-methylhexyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4'-octyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate and 4-(hexyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4'-octyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate, respectively. The peak width and the spin-lattice relaxation time were measured to investigate the effect of chirality on the molecular dynamics. The 13C-NMR study revealed that introducing chirality, namely, the introduction of a (-CH3) group to the C23 carbon, affects the intramolecular correlation between the mobility of the carbon and the rotational motion of the aromatic core.