Patent ID: 8368831
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: C09K

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal formulation comprising: a first oligosiloxane-modified nano-phase segregating liquid crystalline material and at least one additional material selected from a second oligosiloxane-modified nano-phase segregating liquid crystalline material, non-liquid crystalline oligosiloxane-modified materials, organic liquid crystalline materials, or organic non-liquid crystalline materials, wherein the liquid crystal formulation is nano-phase segregated in the SmC* phase, has an I→SmC* phase transition, with SmC* temperature range from about 15° C. to about 35° C., has a tilt angle of about 22.5° or about 45°±6°, has a spontaneous polarization of less than about 50 nC/cm wherein one or more of the first or second oligosiloxane-modified nano-phase segregating liquid crystalline materials is a phenyl benzoate, a biphenyl, a terphenyl, or a phenyl pyrimidine, such that the phenyl pyrimidine has a formula the terphenyl has a formula the phenyl benzoate or biphenyl has a formula