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US 10,988,692 B2Granted
Liquid crystal medium and liquid crystal device
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsSimon Siemianowski, Konstantin Schneider
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Abstract
The invention relates to a medium comprising at least 60% of one or more compounds of formula I wherein R11, R12, MG11, MG12 and Sp1 have the meaning given herein below, to the use of such media in liquid crystal devices, in particular in flexoelectric liquid crystal devices, and to a flexoelectric liquid crystal device comprising a liquid crystal medium according to the present invention.
Claims11
Medium comprising at least 60% of two or more compounds of formula I
- wherein
- R11 and R12 are each independently H, F, Cl, CN, NCS or a straight-chain or branched alkyl group with 1 to 25 C atoms, which may be unsubstituted, mono- or polysubstituted by halogen or CN, where one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups may to be replaced, in each occurrence independently from one another, by —O—, —S—, —NH—, —N(CH3)—, —CO—, —COO—, —OCO—, —O—CO—O—, —S—CO—, —CO—S—, —CH═CH—, —CH═CF—, —CF═CF— or —C≡C— in such a manner that oxygen atoms are not linked directly to one another,
- at least one of
- R11 and R12 is an alkyl group, i.e. a straight-chain or branched alkyl group with 1 to 25 C atoms, which may be unsubstituted, mono- or polysubstituted by halogen or CN, where one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups may be replaced, in each occurrence independently from one another, by —O—, —S—, —NH—, —N(CH3)—, —CO—, —COO—, —OCO—, —O—CO—O—, —S—CO—, —CO—S—, —CH═CH—, —CH═CF—, —CF═CF— or —C≡C— in such a manner that oxygen atoms are not linked directly to one another in which one CH2 groups is replaced by —CH═CH—, —CH═CF—, —CF═CF—, but from which OCF3 and CF3, are excluded,
- MG11 and MG12 are each independently a mesogenic group, wherein at least one of MG11 and MG12 comprises one, two or more 5-atomic and/or 6-atomic rings, in case of comprising two or more 5- and/or 6-atomic rings at least two of these may be linked by a 2-atomic linking group,
- Sp1 is a spacer group comprising 1, 3 or 5 to 40 C atoms, wherein one or more non-adjacent and non-terminal CH2 groups may also be replaced by —O—, —S—, —NH—, —N(CH3)—, —CO—, —O—CO—, —S—CO—, —O—COO—, —CO—S—, —CO—O—, —CH(halogen)-, —CH(CN)—, —CH═CH— or —C≡—, however in such a way that no two O-atoms are adjacent to one another, no two —CH═CH— groups are adjacent to each other and no two groups selected from —O—CO—, —S—CO—, —O—COO—, —CO—S—, —CO—O— and —CH═CH— are adjacent to each other, and
- X11 and X12 are independently from one another a linking group selected from —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —O—, —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —CF2—O—, —O—CF2—, —CF2—CF2, —CH2—O—, —O—CH2—, —CO—S—, —S—CO—, —CS—S—, —S—, and a single bond, under the condition that in —X11-Sp1-X12— no two O atoms are adjacent to one another, no two —CH═CH— groups are adjacent to each other and no two groups selected from —O—CO—, —S—CO—, —O—COO—, —CO—S—, —CO—O— and —CH═CH— are adjacent to each other.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.