화학공학소재연구정보센터
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.511, 1807-1817, 2009
Fractal Features of Growing Aggregates from Isotropic Melt of a Chiral Bent-Core Liquid Crystal
Fractal features of aggregates growing out of the isotropic melt of a chiral bent-core liquid crystal, 1,3-phenylene bis {4-[3-chloro-4-(3,7-dimethyloctyloxyl)] phenyliminomethyl} benzoate, were investigated with differential scanning calorimetry, polarizing optical microscopy, and computer-aided simulation, respectively. Both star-like and grass-like aggregates were observed to grow out of the isotropic melt of the bent-core liquid crystal. With box-counting method, we calculated the fractal dimensions to be about 1.9 for both the star-like and the grass-like aggregates, suggesting the percolation growth of the banana-phase from the isotropic melt of the chiral bent-core liquid crystal.