Electrically conductive liquid crystalline substance and polymer
AssigneeShowa Denko K.K.
InventorsAlan J. Heeger, Haruo Yoshida, Kazumi Naito, Yukio Kobayashi
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Abstract
An electrically conductive liquid crystalline substance represented by the general formula L-S.sub.1 -C.sub.T or L-C.sub.T, wherein L is a residue of a liquid crystalline substance, S.sub.1 is an atom or atomic grouping which becomes a spacer and C.sub.T is a charge-transfer complex, is disclosed. An electrically conductive liquid crystalline polymer having an electrically conductive liquid crystalline substance portion in its side chain is also provided. These electrically conductive liquid crystalline materials are useful in the conventional applications of liquid crystals and in other applications which utilize their electrical conductivity.
Claims11
An electrically conductive liquid crystalline polymer having in the side chain of the polymer a moiety derived from an electrically conductive liquid crystalline compound represented by the following general formula (I) or (II)
- L-S.sub.1 -C.sub.T
- L-C.sub.T
- wherein L is an organic residue with liquid crystalline characteristics, S.sub.1 is an atom or atomic grouping which becomes a spacer, and C.sub.T is a charge-transer complex comprising a guest component and a host component covalently bonded directly to said L or through a spacer to said L, said electrically conductive liquid crystalline polymer having an electrically conductivity of 10.sup.-8 to 1 ohm.sup.-1.cm.sup.-1.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.